[HTML][HTML] Olfactory dysfunction following COVID-19 and the potential benefits of olfactory training

AA Alarfaj, AK Aldrweesh, AF Aldoughan… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 is associated with a common symptom of olfactory dysfunction, which may persist
even after the infection is resolved. Olfactory training (OT) has emerged as the most effective …

[HTML][HTML] Early corticosteroid treatment enhances recovery from SARS-CoV-2 induced loss of smell in hamster

L Merle-Nguyen, O Ando-Grard, C Bourgon… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Among the numerous long COVID symptoms, olfactory dysfunction persists in∼ 10% of
patients suffering from SARS-CoV-2 induced anosmia. Among the few potential therapies …

[HTML][HTML] Post-COVID-19 patients suffer from chemosensory, trigeminal, and salivary dysfunctions

Å Rogn, JL Jensen, PO Iversen, PB Singh - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Recent literature indicates that post-COVID-19 patients suffer from a plethora of
complications, including chemosensory dysfunction. However, little attention has been given …

An Explanation for Reports of Increased Prevalence of Olfactory Dysfunction with Omicron: Asymptomatic Infections

CS von Bartheld, L Wang - The Journal of infectious diseases, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The prevalence of olfactory dysfunction (OD) in people infected with the omicron variant is
substantially reduced compared with previous variants. However, four recent studies …

[HTML][HTML] Covid-19 affects taste independently of smell: results from a combined chemosensory home test and online survey from a global cohort (N= 10,953)

H Nguyen, J Albayay, R Höchenberger, S Bhutani… - medRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
People often confuse smell loss with taste loss, so it is unclear how much gustatory function
is reduced in patients self-reporting taste loss. Our pre-registered cross-sectional study …

Covid-19 affects taste independent of taste–smell confusions: results from a combined chemosensory home test and online survey from a large global cohort

H Nguyen, J Albayay, R Höchenberger… - Chemical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
People often confuse smell loss with taste loss, so it is unclear how much gustatory function
is reduced in patients self-reporting taste loss. Our pre-registered cross-sectional study …

[HTML][HTML] Shedding light on human olfaction: Electrophysiological recordings from sensory neurons in acute slices of olfactory epithelium

A Hernandez-Clavijo, CAS Triviño, G Guarneri, C Ricci… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
The COVID-19 pandemic brought attention to our limited understanding of human olfactory
physiology. While the cellular composition of the human olfactory epithelium is similar to that …

Do SARS-CoV-2 variants differ in their neuropathogenicity?

L Bauer, D van Riel - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Neurological complications associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections are a huge societal problem. Although the neuropathogenicity of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of clinical characteristics and viral load in individuals infected by Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2

SLP Nunes, CA de França, GD Rocha… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
In late 2021, a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 called Omicron emerged, replacing Delta
worldwide. Although it has been associated with a lower risk of hospitalization and severe …

[HTML][HTML] The assessment of qualitative olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review of tools and their content validity

A Espetvedt, S Wiig, KV Myrnes-Hansen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background There is a lack of overview of the tools used to assess qualitative olfactory
dysfunction, including parosmia and phantosmia, following COVID-19 illness. This could …