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Evaluation of Nasal Mucociliary Clearance as an Indicator of Nasal Function in Obsessive-Compulsive Patients: A
Mehtap Koparal1, Yasar Kapici2, Sefer Aslan3
1Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Adiyaman University, Adiyaman, Turkey.
Abstract:
This clinical study aimed to compare the mucociliary clearance time in patients with OCD, a disease associated with neural olfactory disorders, with a healthy control group. The mucociliary clearance time of fifty-one patients with OCD and fifty-two healthy patients (control group) was compared. The saccharin nasal mucociliary clearance test (NMCT) was applied and recorded the sociodemographic data of all participants. The NMCT was longer in OCD patients than healthy controls. There was no statistically significant difference in sociodemographic data between the groups. Our results show that olfactory transmission pathways may be affected in OCD patients.
Supplementary Information:
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12070-023-03972-2.
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