TY - JOUR
T1 - Taste and smell as chemosensory dysfunctions in COVID-19 infection
AU - Passarelli, Pier Carmine
AU - Lopez, Michele Antonio
AU - Bonaviri, Giuseppe Niccolo Mastandrea
AU - Garcia-Godoy, Franklin
AU - D'Addona, Antonio
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Purpose: To review the literature on the presence of two clinical manifestations in patients presenting COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infection: loss of taste (ageusia) and loss of smell (anosmia). Methods: PubMed and EMBASE were searched and studies were selected starting from November, 2019 until April 2020; also, the references of the selected articles were evaluated for methodological quality. Results: Of the 19 studies analyzed, five were included to evaluate the presence of ageusia and/or anosmia as symptoms in patients who were tested and resulted positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In a total of 10,818 patients, 8,823 presented ageusia (81.6%; range 5.6%-88%) and 8,088 presented anosmia (74.8%; range 5.1-85.6%). Only one study recorded both symptoms with a percentage of 18.6%.
AB - Purpose: To review the literature on the presence of two clinical manifestations in patients presenting COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infection: loss of taste (ageusia) and loss of smell (anosmia). Methods: PubMed and EMBASE were searched and studies were selected starting from November, 2019 until April 2020; also, the references of the selected articles were evaluated for methodological quality. Results: Of the 19 studies analyzed, five were included to evaluate the presence of ageusia and/or anosmia as symptoms in patients who were tested and resulted positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In a total of 10,818 patients, 8,823 presented ageusia (81.6%; range 5.6%-88%) and 8,088 presented anosmia (74.8%; range 5.1-85.6%). Only one study recorded both symptoms with a percentage of 18.6%.
KW - Coronavirus infection
KW - Smell
KW - taste
KW - Coronavirus infection
KW - Smell
KW - taste
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/160814
M3 - Article
SN - 0894-8275
VL - 33
SP - 135
EP - 137
JO - American Journal of Dentistry
JF - American Journal of Dentistry
ER -