Open AccessNASAL POLYPS
Author(s) -
Waseem Ahmad,
Munawar Iqbal,
Gohar Amin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2018.25.09.147
Subject(s) - medicine , aspergillus flavus , nasal polyps , aspergillus , microbiology and biotechnology , etiology , fungus , aspergillus fumigatus , sinus (botany) , mucous membrane , pathology , biology , genus , immunology , botany
Background: Nasal polyposis is a provocative situation of indefinite etiology thatinvolve nasal as well as sinus mucous membrane. Quality of life of a person can damage by nasalimpediment due to these nasal polyps. Further, it can cause of persistent postnasal drainage,hyposmia, sinusitis, taste sense change even bony demolition. It shows that inflammationreason a reactive hyperplasia of intra-nasal mucosal membrane resulted in the polyp formation.Objectives: To discover the kind of fungus concerned in nasal polyps fungal. Study Design:Descriptive study. Setting: ENT department of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Lahore. Period: 1stJanuary 2017 to 30th June 2017. Materials and Methods: In microbiology department, thesecollected samples were processed to check the involvement of fungal. Out of all, 118 caseswere included in this study which culture was positive. Increase for microscopic assessment,mycological culture to determine the involvement of fungal and fungus kind, these sampleswere processed for diagnosis by potassium hydroxide (KOH). By using seaboard dextroseagar at 25ºC and 37ºC the fungal culture was done. Periodically it was identified through culturecharacteristics & microscopy if growth was present. Results: In this study, 118 culture positivesamples were included. In 82 cases Aspergillus Spp. was observed among positive specimens;In 32 samples Aspergillus flavus was observed while in 10 samples Aspergillus fumigates wasfound and species was not cleared in 40 samples. The fungal element was isolated in 36samples but genus was not determined. Conclusion: In fungal nasal polyposis, AspergillusSpp. is very general pathogen and we observed in our study that Aspergillus flavus is verycommon agent.