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  • Neurology
  • Otolaryngology
  • Infectious Diseases

Background:

  • Persistent olfactory and gustatory dysfunction are reported symptoms following COVID-19 infection.
  • Understanding the objective and subjective nature of these post-COVID-19 symptoms is crucial for patient management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze objective and subjective olfactory and gustatory function in individuals with post-COVID-19 infection (PCI).

Main Methods:

  • Compared 42 PCI subjects with persistent complaints to 41 healthy controls.
  • Assessed olfactory threshold and identification, and gustatory detection, identification, and magnitude scaling.

Main Results:

  • PCI subjects reported combined olfactory/gustatory dysfunction more frequently than controls.
  • Objective testing revealed significantly higher rates of hyposmia, anosmia, and hypogeusia in PCI patients.
  • A low agreement was observed between subjective complaints and objective findings for olfactory and gustatory functions.

Conclusions:

  • Subjective complaints of combined olfactory and gustatory dysfunction in PCI do not always align with objective testing results.
  • Abnormal objective findings across multiple olfactory and gustatory functions may indicate central nervous system involvement in PCI.