Fungal immunotherapy in patients with allergic fungal sinusitis.

Background: Allergic fungal sinusitis is a disease for which optimal treatment is unclear. Previous studies using fungal immunotherapy reported less recurrence after surgery. There has been concern that traditional high-dose immunotherapy could induce systemic hypersensitivity in patients with this condition.

Complications of allergic fungal sinusitis.

Purpose: Allergic fungal sinusitis is a syndrome of chronic noninvasive fungal sinusitis that results in the accumulation of eosinophil-rich allergic mucin within the paranasal sinuses. This mucin may become an expansile mass leading to complications that have not been well characterized or classified.

Methods: Inclusion criteria for this study required meeting previously published diagnostic criteria and complications greater than nasal polyps or sinusitis itself.

Clinical features of sarcoid rhinosinusitis.

Objective: We asked if certain clinical features were useful predictors of sarcoid rhinosinusitis in general populations of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis.

Methods: Our patients with sarcoid rhinosinusitis and those from the literature formed the study group. A group of 21 randomly selected patients from The University of Mississippi Medical Center Allergy Clinic with chronic rhinosinusitis composed the control group.

Detection of perfusion disturbances in digit replantation using near-infrared spectroscopy and serial quantitative fluoroscopy.

Purpose: The postoperative monitoring of digit replants continues to be a challenge. Current objective methods of digit monitoring have not been adopted widely because of their complexity or lack of sensitivity. Because tissue oxygen tension correlates directly with vascular inflow, a device that tracks changes in tissue oxygenation may be useful to monitor the perfusion and viability of digits after revascularization.