A descriptive epidemiological study of fungal rhinosinusitis (FRS) was conducted in rural north India in the form of house-to-house survey of villages of two districts each of Punjab and Haryana provinces using a clinical case definition of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). The suspected cases were investigated further in the laboratory to confirm FRS. Air and environment were sampled in different ...

BACKGROUND Given the differences in pathophysiology between allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS) and other chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) subgroups, it remains unclear about whether these patients respond differently to a combination of surgical and medical treatments. OBJECTIVE To evaluate differences in quality-of-life (QoL) outcomes for a cohort of patients who underwent endoscopic sinus su...

Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) rank second at chronic inflammatory diseases in industrialized countries and are an important public health concern. Diagnosis relies on a set of arguments including clinical signs, imaging, histopathologic and mycological analyses of sinus specimens, collected during nasal endoscopy. The sensitivity of fungal cultures is reported to be poor, even when direct examin...

Aim: To see the prevalence of fungal rhino sinusitis in patients presenting with nasal polyposis. Study design: Cross-sectional study. Place and duration study: Department Otorhinolaryngology Head Neck surgery, PIMS, Islamabad from 1st October 2021 to 31st March 2022. Methodology: Patients polyps fulfilling our inclusion criterion ENT PIMS. Eighty for surgery after admitting them specimen was s...