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Radio-laboratory findings in COVID-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience
BACKGROUND: There is solid evidence that olfactory dysfunction (OD) can present in COVID-19 patients. Anosmia can be the only presentation or can be accompanied by other symptoms of COVID-19. Multiple cross-sectional studies have demonstrated that the incidence rate of olfactory dysfunction is high...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8319694/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43163-021-00133-6 |
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author | Algarf, Tareq Muhammad Youssef, Mahmoud Atef Elshazly, Mostafa Ismail, Mohamed Said Hasswa, Mohamed Kamal Mousa, Mohamed Shaaban |
author_facet | Algarf, Tareq Muhammad Youssef, Mahmoud Atef Elshazly, Mostafa Ismail, Mohamed Said Hasswa, Mohamed Kamal Mousa, Mohamed Shaaban |
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description | BACKGROUND: There is solid evidence that olfactory dysfunction (OD) can present in COVID-19 patients. Anosmia can be the only presentation or can be accompanied by other symptoms of COVID-19. Multiple cross-sectional studies have demonstrated that the incidence rate of olfactory dysfunction is high in COVID-19 patients with good prognosis. The aim of our study is to investigate the presence of OD with the radiologic and laboratory findings among COVID-19 positive patients. RESULTS: There was statistical significance in clinical severity between anosmia and non-anosmia group (P value 0.000) denoting that anosmia sign mostly occur in mild COVID. Also, there was significance in D dimer between two groups (P value 0.044) denoting that D dimer could be a sign of clinical severity and it is usually not elevated in anosmia. All anosmia group had normal CT chest denoting that it is a mild form of COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: Olfactory dysfunction (OD) is an imminent sign of COVID-19 patient, which can be presented as a sole symptom or with other symptoms. As anosmia could be the sole clinical presentation of COVID-19 patients without any other significant signs and so otolaryngologists should be aware of this presentation in COVID-19 diagnosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-83196942021-07-29 Radio-laboratory findings in COVID-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience Algarf, Tareq Muhammad Youssef, Mahmoud Atef Elshazly, Mostafa Ismail, Mohamed Said Hasswa, Mohamed Kamal Mousa, Mohamed Shaaban Egypt J Otolaryngol Original Article BACKGROUND: There is solid evidence that olfactory dysfunction (OD) can present in COVID-19 patients. Anosmia can be the only presentation or can be accompanied by other symptoms of COVID-19. Multiple cross-sectional studies have demonstrated that the incidence rate of olfactory dysfunction is high in COVID-19 patients with good prognosis. The aim of our study is to investigate the presence of OD with the radiologic and laboratory findings among COVID-19 positive patients. RESULTS: There was statistical significance in clinical severity between anosmia and non-anosmia group (P value 0.000) denoting that anosmia sign mostly occur in mild COVID. Also, there was significance in D dimer between two groups (P value 0.044) denoting that D dimer could be a sign of clinical severity and it is usually not elevated in anosmia. All anosmia group had normal CT chest denoting that it is a mild form of COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: Olfactory dysfunction (OD) is an imminent sign of COVID-19 patient, which can be presented as a sole symptom or with other symptoms. As anosmia could be the sole clinical presentation of COVID-19 patients without any other significant signs and so otolaryngologists should be aware of this presentation in COVID-19 diagnosis. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-07-29 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8319694/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43163-021-00133-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Algarf, Tareq Muhammad Youssef, Mahmoud Atef Elshazly, Mostafa Ismail, Mohamed Said Hasswa, Mohamed Kamal Mousa, Mohamed Shaaban Radio-laboratory findings in COVID-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience |
title | Radio-laboratory findings in COVID-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience |
title_full | Radio-laboratory findings in COVID-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience |
title_fullStr | Radio-laboratory findings in COVID-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Radio-laboratory findings in COVID-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience |
title_short | Radio-laboratory findings in COVID-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience |
title_sort | radio-laboratory findings in covid-19 anosmia patients: a single-center experience |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8319694/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43163-021-00133-6 |
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