Learn the essential facts about fungal sinus infections, from recognizing early warning signs to understanding treatment ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO A fungal sinus infection, also called fungal sinusitis, is when fungus causes an infection of the sinuses. The sinuses are air-filled cavities in the head ...

Fungal directed immunotherapy has been shown to decrease postoperative nasal crusting, re-accumulation of debris, and allergic mucin within the sinus cavities. Maybry and colleagues [34] found ...

Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis is a form of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps associated with a fungal infection and allergies. It accounts for 5-10% of all chronic rhinosinusitis cases.

"The polyps had eroded so much the bone around the perimeter of the sinuses that they were entering into the brain cavity and ...

Our understanding of fungal sinusitis continues to grow. Increased physician awareness and technological advances in radiology make the diagnosis of fungal sinusitis increasingly more common.