240 Mold Sensitization in Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patients Radoslaw Gawlik, MD, PhD, and Eugeniusz Czecior, MD, PhD. Internal Medicine, Allergy and Clin Immunology, Silesian University of Medicine, Katowice, Poland; Silesian University of Medicine, Zabrze, Poland. Background: It is estimated that about 10% of the population have IgE antibodies to common inhalant molds. Exposure to fungal allerge...

OBJECTIVE To assess the presentation of allergic fungal sinusitis and describe the line of management in our setup. DESIGN Descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Study was conducted in Otorhinolaryngology Department, Dow Medical College and Civil Hospital, Karachi, from January 2004 to January 2005. PATIENTS AND METHODS Culture and sensitivity / fungal stain proven 20 cases of all...

This paper reviews the treatment and diagnosis of immunocompromised patients with fungal sinusitis at St Jude Children's Research Hospital. Sinusitis of all types was found to be more common in patients with hematopoietic neoplasms than in patients with solid tumors; 42% of patients with leukemia had abnormal sinus radiographs. Eight cases of pathologically proven fungal sinusitis were identifi...

OBJECTIVE To describe the syndrome of optic nerve involvement in cases of allergic fungal sinusitis. SETTING Academic tertiary care centre. METHODS Analysis of prospectively accrued data for 10 consecutive cases (three bilateral, giving 13 eyes) with visual loss secondary to optic nerve compression, from a total of 70 cases of allergic fungal sinusitis undergoing surgical treatment between ...