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Anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients COVID-19: à propos de 2 cas
During the ongoing pandemic, anosmia, whether or not associated with aguesia, has been a common symptom in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection causing COVID-19. We here report two cases of anosemia without aguesia in adults with COVID-19. The onset was brutal and symptomsa persisted for a few weeks a...
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7467895/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32952820 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.176.24027 |
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author | Keita, Abdoulaye Bacharou, Hamza Abdou Diallo, Ibrahima Camara, Alseny |
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description | During the ongoing pandemic, anosmia, whether or not associated with aguesia, has been a common symptom in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection causing COVID-19. We here report two cases of anosemia without aguesia in adults with COVID-19. The onset was brutal and symptomsa persisted for a few weeks after healing. The patients presented to the ENT Department where they received no therapy and underwent outpatient surveillance. After 5 weeks, patients reported they had recovered the sense of smell. This study highlights that anosmia can occur without aguesia and persist after healing in COVID-19 patients. Recovery of the smell is possible after a few weeks without medical treatment. That is why, patients follow-up is essential in subjects recovered from COVID-19 to better understand the course of persistent symptoms. |
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spelling | pubmed-74678952020-09-17 Anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients COVID-19: à propos de 2 cas Keita, Abdoulaye Bacharou, Hamza Abdou Diallo, Ibrahima Camara, Alseny Pan Afr Med J Case Report During the ongoing pandemic, anosmia, whether or not associated with aguesia, has been a common symptom in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection causing COVID-19. We here report two cases of anosemia without aguesia in adults with COVID-19. The onset was brutal and symptomsa persisted for a few weeks after healing. The patients presented to the ENT Department where they received no therapy and underwent outpatient surveillance. After 5 weeks, patients reported they had recovered the sense of smell. This study highlights that anosmia can occur without aguesia and persist after healing in COVID-19 patients. Recovery of the smell is possible after a few weeks without medical treatment. That is why, patients follow-up is essential in subjects recovered from COVID-19 to better understand the course of persistent symptoms. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7467895/ /pubmed/32952820 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.176.24027 Text en Copyright: Abdoulaye Keita et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Keita, Abdoulaye Bacharou, Hamza Abdou Diallo, Ibrahima Camara, Alseny Anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients COVID-19: à propos de 2 cas |
title | Anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients COVID-19: à propos de 2 cas |
title_full | Anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients COVID-19: à propos de 2 cas |
title_fullStr | Anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients COVID-19: à propos de 2 cas |
title_full_unstemmed | Anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients COVID-19: à propos de 2 cas |
title_short | Anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients COVID-19: à propos de 2 cas |
title_sort | anosmie sans agueusie chez des patients covid-19: à propos de 2 cas |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7467895/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32952820 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.176.24027 |
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