scholarly journals Decrease and Recovery of Olfactory and Gustatory Function in a Case of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

ORL ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
David Tianxiang Liu ◽  
Bernhard Prem ◽  
Gerold Besser ◽  
Christian Albert Mueller ◽  
Bertold Renner

Self-reported chemosensory dysfunction in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 patients is common. We present a case of reversible smell loss in a young patient with mild coronavirus disease 2019 infection assessed with established testing methods over a period of 8 weeks.

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. e237239
Author(s):  
Dacre Knight ◽  
Joan Irizarry-Alvarado

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers worldwide have faced many obstacles in the diagnostic evaluation of patients for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the causative virus. Even with the application of statistical inference by Bayes’ theorem to estimate the probability of a diagnosis, with and without testing capabilities, some cases may still carry a degree of uncertainty. This has important implications for limiting the spread of disease. The basis for isolation and quarantine is a known diagnosis. This case is an example of a diagnostic conundrum that required more thorough use of testing methods, particularly serological testing, to guide the isolation recommendations for a patient with COVID-19. This will be helpful to other diagnosticians by providing an example of how serological findings may be effectively applied in the course of individual COVID-19 management.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Maunder ◽  
William J. Lancee ◽  
Kenneth E. Balderson ◽  
Jocelyn P. Bennett ◽  
Bjug Borgundvaag ◽  
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