| Autor: |
Aniruddha Majumder, Ashis Kumar Ghosh, Indranil Thakur, Shoham Banerjee, Debdulal Chakraborty |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Bengal Journal of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery, Vol 30, Iss 1 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2395-2407 |
| DOI: |
10.47210/bjohns.2022.v30i1.658 |
| Popis: |
Introduction COVID-19 is an ongoing viral pandemic and a very contagious disease. Other than common symptoms like fever, cough and malaise; alteration in smell and taste perception may be the presenting symptoms in a significant number of patients infected with COVID-19. Materials and Methods Presence of smell alteration assessed among 150 mild to moderate COVID-19 positive patients admitted at our COVID hospital as well as 150 COVID-19 negative patients in May-June, 2021. Use and throw smell cards were used to detect smell alteration for all. Symptom onset and its resolution were noted. Smell alteration was also evaluated in different age group and gender. Results 81 (54%) patients among 150 COVID positive cases had smell alteration compared to 9 (6%) patients among non-COVID arm (p value |
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