New treatment for invasive fungal sinusitis: Three cases of chronic invasive fungal sinusitis treated with surgery and voriconazole |
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Authors: | Kazuhiro Nakaya Takeshi OshimaTakayuki Kudo Iori AoyagiYukio Katori Jun OtaHiroshi Hidaka Kiyoshi OdaToshimitsu Kobayashi |
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Affiliation: | Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan |
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Abstract: | Invasive fungal sinusitis is a relatively rare disease and can be divided into acute fulminant, chronic, and granulomatous invasive fungal sinusitis. The conventional treatment is radical surgery combined with systemic amphotericin B administration, but the poor prognosis and unestablished treatment options require a better therapeutic strategy. We report three cases of chronic invasive fungal sinusitis successfully treated with a combination of surgery and voriconazole, a new antifungal agent, with good responses in all patients. Voriconazole administration could form the basis for a new standard treatment for invasive fungal sinusitis. |
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Keywords: | Chronic invasive fungal sinusitis Voriconazole Amphotericin B |
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