The study was conducted to study the occurrence and clinical presentation of allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS), characterize the same, and correlate with the microbiological profile. Clinically suspected cases of fungal rhinosinusitis (FRS) depending upon their clinical presentation, nasal endoscopy, and radiological evidences were included. Relevant clinical samples were collected and subj...

C hronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most expensive chronic disorders experienced by the North American population. It is estimated to affect nearly 15% of the US population. Its prevalence is reported to be increasing, thereby attributing to the rise in today’s health care costs. Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS), a subtype of CRS, accounts for approximately 7% of all CRS patients r...

Recent explanations for the evolution of eusociality, focusing more on costs and benefits than relatedness, are largely untested. We validate one such model by showing that helpers in foundress groups of the paper wasp Polistes dominulus benefit from an insurance-based mechanism known as Assured Fitness Returns (AFRs). Experimental helper removals left remaining group members with more offsprin...

Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) affects 12.5% of the US population. On epidemiologic grounds, some association has been found between CRS prevalence and air pollution, active cigarette smoking, secondhand smoke exposure, perennial allergic rhinitis, and gastroesophageal reflux. The majority of pediatric and adult patients with CRS are immune competent. Data on genetic associations with CRS are sti...

Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS) is characterized by the growth of fungi, mostly Aspergillus sp., in the paranasal sinuses together with the formation of nasal polyps, peanut-butter like “allergic mucin” with fungal hyphae and typical CT-findings, as well as increased serum total IgE and Aspergillus-specific IgE concentrations. We here hypothesize that the increase in serum total IgE is ca...

fungal rhino sinusitis (frs) is an important infection of para nasal sinuses, which encompasses two main categories; invasive and noninvasive forms according to histopathological findings. aspergillus spp are the most common species isolated from noninvasive form, while mucorales are more frequently isolates from acute infections.four hundred fifty patients suspected to fungal rhino sinusitis w...

An automated fingerprint recognition system (AFRS) for 3D fingerprints is essential and highly promising biometric security. Despite the progress in developing AFRSs, achieving high-quality real-time reconstruction high-accuracy of remain two challenging issues. To address them, we propose a robust AFRS based on ridge-valley (RV)-guided topology polymer (TTP) feature extraction. The former cons...