Acute sinusitis is a very common entity that leads to a significant financial medical burden, as well as serious complications when treatment is inadequate. This article investigates the clinical criteria for making the diagnosis of acute sinusitis, the common causative pathogens, and the current treatment and referral guidelines. In addition, the most common complications are outlined, in orde...

Isolated frontal sinusitis with mixed bacterial colonies is extremely rare and has not been described. We report a case of isolated frontal sinus forming mixed bacterial colonies that occurred in the previously exposed frontal sinus. The material in the frontal sinus was macroscopically similar to sinus fungus ball. Surgical strategy followed that for sinus fungus ball. The material could not b...

Aim: To prevent complications of fungal sinusitis by early and prompt radiological diagnosis. Study design: Descriptive/ Observational. Setting: Department of ENT Fatima Jinnah Medical College/Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, in collaboration with Department of Diagnostic Radiology of the same Hospital from Nov 2012 to April 2013. Methods: Patients with symptoms of chronic sinusitis fulfilling f...

BACKGROUND Treatment of chronic sinusitis is complicated due to increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The aim of this study was to determine the multidrug resistance (MDR) pattern of the bacteria causing chronic sinusitis in north of Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out on patients with chronic sinusitis. Bacterial susceptibility to antimicrobial agents was determined...

inusitis is a widespread disease frequently seen in the primary care setting. There are 32 million cases of chronic sinusitis in the United States annually. Since 1980, the number of office visits per year has tripled, owing partly to a better definition of the disease and improved diagnosis, and the use of antibiotics to treat the disease has quadrupled. Sinusitis accounted for 11.6 million of...

A 10-year retrospective analysis of invasive mold infections in hospitalized patients was performed to characterize the epidemiology and clinical features of invasive fungal sinusitis. Seventeen cases of invasive mold sinusitis were identified. Eleven cases were caused by Aspergillus flavus, three were caused by unspecified species, and one each was caused by Aspergillus fumigatus, Rhizopus spe...

Purpose of the study Chronic invasive fungal sinusitis is a rare condition, and the conventional treatment surgical debridement and systemic antifungal therapy such as amphotericin B. Recently, voriconazole has demonstrated superior efficacy in the treatment of invasive aspergillosis, compared to amphotericin B. However, its use in invasive fungal sinusitis in an HIV patient has not been reported.

In patients with hematological disease, aspergillus sinusitis occurs more frequently in acute forms (1). To our knowledge, a chronic myelomonocytic hematological disease of leukaemia type occurred in one patient only, with recurrent lung aspergillosis and mucormycosis (2). Here we report a case of maxillary aspergillus sinusitis occurring in a patient with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia showi...

We report a case of non-invasive sinusitis caused by Scopulariopsis brevicaulis in a 70-year-old immunocompetent patient who had an antibiotic-resistant suppurative tooth infection evolving for seven months. The sinus endoscopy highlighted a foreign body at the bottom of the sinus, which led to the hypothesis of fungal ball sinusitis. Culture of excised tissue was positive for S. brevicaulis.