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Allergic fungal sinusitis

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Many common chronic inflammatory rhinosinusitis conditions (hypertrophic sinus disease [HSD]) have the histopathological profile of allergic or asthmatic inflammation. Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is both a type of noninvasive fungal rhinosinusitis and a type of HSD AFS has clinicopathological features that make it similar, but not identical, to allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). Allergic mucin is a defined pathological entity occurring in ABPA, AFS, and in the HSD “eosinophilic mucin rhinosinusitis (EMRS).” Diagnosis of AFS requires a careful review of surgical reports, histopathology, and culture results. Treatment includes surgery and aggressive postoperative medical management of allergic inflammatory disease. Prognosis is good with integrated medical-surgical follow-up, but recurrence remains problematic. The association of ABPA, AFS, and HSD with class II genes of the major histocompatibility complex places the initiation of these inflammatory diseases within the context of antigen presentation and the acquired immune response. Pathological immunomanipulation of this response by local microbial suqerantigens may be a common mechanism for disease pathogenesis. Future research into the molecular biology of these related conditions may offer insight into the pathogenesis of other chronic inflammatory diseases.

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Schubert, M.S. Allergic fungal sinusitis. Clinic Rev Allerg Immunol 30, 205–215 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1385/CRIAI:30:3:205

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