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Hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of COVID-19
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which first arose in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has since been declared a pandemic. The clinical sequelae vary from mild, self-limiting upper respiratory infection symptoms...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7228456/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32404376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-236080 |
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author | Melley, Lauren E Bress, Eli Polan, Erik |
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description | COVID-19 is the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which first arose in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has since been declared a pandemic. The clinical sequelae vary from mild, self-limiting upper respiratory infection symptoms to severe respiratory distress, acute cardiopulmonary arrest and death. Otolaryngologists around the globe have reported a significant number of mild or otherwise asymptomatic patients with COVID-19 presenting with olfactory dysfunction. We present a case of COVID-19 resulting in intensive care unit (ICU) admission, presenting with the initial symptom of disrupted taste and flavour perception prior to respiratory involvement. After 4 days in the ICU and 6 days on the general medicine floor, our patient regained a majority of her sense of smell and was discharged with only lingering dysgeusia. In this paper, we review existing literature and the clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 in relation to the reported symptoms of hyposmia, hypogeusia and dysgeusia. |
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spelling | pubmed-72284562020-05-18 Hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of COVID-19 Melley, Lauren E Bress, Eli Polan, Erik BMJ Case Rep Unusual Association of Diseases/Symptoms COVID-19 is the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which first arose in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has since been declared a pandemic. The clinical sequelae vary from mild, self-limiting upper respiratory infection symptoms to severe respiratory distress, acute cardiopulmonary arrest and death. Otolaryngologists around the globe have reported a significant number of mild or otherwise asymptomatic patients with COVID-19 presenting with olfactory dysfunction. We present a case of COVID-19 resulting in intensive care unit (ICU) admission, presenting with the initial symptom of disrupted taste and flavour perception prior to respiratory involvement. After 4 days in the ICU and 6 days on the general medicine floor, our patient regained a majority of her sense of smell and was discharged with only lingering dysgeusia. In this paper, we review existing literature and the clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 in relation to the reported symptoms of hyposmia, hypogeusia and dysgeusia. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7228456/ /pubmed/32404376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-236080 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Unusual Association of Diseases/Symptoms Melley, Lauren E Bress, Eli Polan, Erik Hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of COVID-19 |
title | Hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of COVID-19 |
title_full | Hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of COVID-19 |
title_short | Hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of COVID-19 |
title_sort | hypogeusia as the initial presenting symptom of covid-19 |
topic | Unusual Association of Diseases/Symptoms |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7228456/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32404376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-236080 |
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