Qualitative smell/taste disorders as sequelae of acute COVID-19.

Tommaso ErcoliCarla MasalaIlenia PinnaGianni OrofinoPaolo SollaLorenzo RocchiGiovanni Defazio

Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2021)

Around one-third of patients who recover from COVID-19 may have persistent qualitative dysfunction in smell/taste domains. Detection of phantogeusia in long-term COVID-19 patients represents a further novel finding. Further investigation is needed to better characterize the pathophysiology of phantosmia, parosmia, phantogeusia, and parageusia in patients who had COVID-19.

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