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Olfactory dysfunction during COVID-19 pandemic
Pérdida del sentido del olfato durante la pandemia COVID-19
Adriana Izquierdo-Domíngueza,b,c, María Jesús Rojas-Lechugad,e,f, Joaquim Mullold,e,f, Isam Alobidd,e,f,
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a Servicio de Alergología, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
b Unidad Alergo Rino, Centro Médico Teknon, Barcelona, Spain
c Unidad de Alergología, Clínica Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain
d Unidad de Rinología y Clínica del Olfato, Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
e Immunoal·lèrgia Respiratòria Clínica i Experimental, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
f CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Spain
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One odour is capable of activating multiple types of receptors to varying degrees&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a></p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The olfactory sensory neurons send the chemical message by nerve impulses to the olfactory glomeruli in the olfactory bulb&#46; This information is processed and integrated into the olfactory bulb&#44; then it is projected to structures of the limbic system &#40;emotions&#41; and the hypothalamus &#40;long-term memory&#41;&#44; and finally to the primary olfactory cortex &#40;inferior and medial areas of the temporal lobe&#41;&#46; Smell is the only sense that does not synapse in the thalamus before connecting to the primary cerebral cortex&#46; A human being has approximately 350 functional odorant genes that encode protein receptors&#46; These receptors interact with their own subset of chemicals or substances leading to the complex mechanism of smell identification<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Loss of smell aetiology</span><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Smell plays an important role in daily life&#46; It influences food selection and nutrient intake&#44; the identification and enjoyment of food&#44; socialising&#44; overall quality of life and the detection of potentially toxic and harmful substances&#44; thereby proving its importance in the safety against food poisoning or intoxication&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a></p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Olfactory dysfunction &#40;OD&#41; can be classified as quantitative which implies an alteration in intensity&#44; or qualitative when there are changes in the quality of the perception of smells&#46; While normal olfactory function is defined as normosmia&#44; quantitative disorders are classified as partial &#40;hyposmia&#41; or total &#40;anosmia&#41; loss of smell&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> Physiologically&#44; olfactory perception as in detection&#44; memory&#44; and identification&#44; worsens with age&#46; Although smell detection increases and peaks while a person is in their 30&#8239;s&#44; the recognition&#47;memory and identification of the different smells decreases once they are in their 60&#8239;s&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a></p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The association between OD and smoking is controversial in current literature&#46; Some studies describe a negative impact of smoking on the sense of smell&#44; while others describe a positive impact&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> However&#44; the olfactory function seems to improve when a person stops smoking&#46; A study that included 3900 patients with olfactory loss&#44; 521 active smokers and 316 ex-smokers&#44; concluded that patients who were active smokers did not have significantly lower olfactory function&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Many diseases can be linked to OD&#44; as well as congenital causes&#44; post-infectious disorders&#44; rhinosinusal diseases&#44; head trauma&#44; and neurodegenerative diseases&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a><ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">a&#41;</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Congenital anosmia &#40;aplasia or hypoplasia of the olfactory bulbs and structures&#41; is a very rare condition and it can occur as an isolated abnormality or as a syndrome&#46; Therefore&#44; it is recommended to rule out disorders such as Kallmann syndrome &#40;hypogonadotropic hypogonadism&#41; or Turner syndrome &#40;altered X chromosome&#41; as well as other congenital pathologies such as ciliopathies &#40;Bardet&#8211;Biedl syndrome&#44; Leber congenital amaurosis&#41; or hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">b&#41;</span><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Post-infectious hyposmia&#47;anosmia &#40;common cold&#44; flu&#41; may impair the sense of smell due to a combined inflammatory&#47;conductive and neurodegenerative disorder&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">c&#41;</span><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Inflammatory sinonasal diseases&#44; such as allergic rhinitis or chronic rhinosinusitis&#47;nasal polyps&#44; can cause conductive and inflammatory disorders&#46; They can prevent odorants from reaching the receptors of the olfactory epithelium or cause inflammatory neurodegeneration to the respiratory epithelium&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0020"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">d&#41;</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Neurodegenerative diseases&#44; such as Alzheimer&#8217;s and Parkinson&#8217;s&#44; are neurosensory disorders that arise from poor reception or processing of stimuli by the olfactory receptors&#44; olfactory neurons&#44; or the pathways towards the olfactory centres of the central nervous system&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0025"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">e&#41;</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Olfactory dysfunction due to traumatic brain injury is a neurosensory disorder that is often overlooked after a serious accident&#44; by both the patient and the healthcare personnel due to the focus being on patient stabilisation and the initial treatment&#46;</p></li></ul></p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0020">Smell testing</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There are numerous techniques and tools available to explore the olfactory chemosensory capacity both subjectively and objectively&#44; all with advantages and disadvantages&#46;</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The olfactometric assessment depends on factors such as patient collaboration&#44; culture &#40;recognition of certain smells&#41;&#44; the examiner&#44; and the type of study&#46; There is also a series of environmental factors that depend on the person&#44; such as&#58; age&#44; sex &#40;hormonal variations&#41;&#44; toxic habits &#40;alcohol&#44; tobacco&#44; cocaine&#44; heroin&#41;&#44; work&#44; medical history&#44; exposure time and social aspects &#40;association of different smells to certain situations&#41;&#46;</p><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Subjective tests</span><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Olfactometry can include a smell threshold test&#44; which determines the concentration at which the patient is able to identify an odorant &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>-butanol&#44; rose&#41; and a smell supraliminal detection test &#40;with odorant concentrations above the patient&#8217;s threshold of detection&#41; that allow the detection&#44; recognition&#47;memory and identification of a certain odour to be tested&#46; It is a test designed to assess the olfactory state in a normal or pathological situation&#44; as well as to quantify and interpret the results&#46; The olfactometry of the <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test</span> &#40;UPSIT&#41; is the most widely used test in the world&#46; This test comprises of smells &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;40&#41; that are released when a &#8220;scratch &#38; sniff&#8221; label of microencapsulated odours on a page is scratched&#46; This test enables the OD to be classified as either anosmia&#44; or mild&#44; moderate or severe hyposmia&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a></p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">All or just some of the substances can be studied&#44; and the study can be quantitative or qualitative&#46; A <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">quantitative</span> study determines the lowest concentration of an odour that can be reliably detected &#40;olfactory threshold&#41; and aims to study olfactory variations depending on the odour concentration and the quantity of odours detected&#44; giving a result of anosmia &#40;total loss&#41;&#44; hyposmia &#40;partial loss&#41; or normosmia &#40;normal smell&#41;&#46; The <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">qualitative</span> study analyses the ability to describe odour qualities&#44; evaluating the qualitative variations of the odorant substances used&#44; analysing the error in the response of a known smell from a list of four or five alternatives&#44; of which only one is correct &#40;forced identification&#41;&#46; These tests help to study the patient&#8217;s smell identification&#44; olfactory discrimination and&#47;or olfactory threshold&#46; They are indicated for diagnosing OD and classifying its severity&#44; as well as for monitoring progression or reversal of the loss of smell&#46; The methodology must be validated and performed by a well-trained healthcare professional&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A simple&#44; fast and easy tool to use is the visual analog scale &#40;VAS&#41;&#46; It is a horizontal line 10&#8239;cm long where 0 equals no loss of smell and 10 equals total loss of smell &#8212; and the patient marks on the line the point he&#47;she feels represents his&#47;her current state&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0030">Objective tests</span><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Objective tests are especially used in research&#44; and some have been developed in which the data does not depend on patient subjectivity&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#8211;7</span></a> Tests to be highlighted include the electrophysiological tests of olfaction &#40;electro-olfactogram&#44; olfactory evoked potentials&#41;&#44; olfactory structural and functional imaging tests&#44; and biopsies of the olfactory region&#46; The limitations are that these tests can only be performed in highly specialised centres&#59; furthermore&#44; they do not discriminate between the different causes of OD&#44; and they do not provide information on the possible location of the damage&#46;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0010"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0030"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Electro-olfactogram &#40;EOG&#41;</span>&#46; The EOG records the magnitude of the electrical activity of the nasal olfactory epithelium by applying olfactory stimuli while the activity is recorded using intranasal electrodes applied by the specialist&#46; This test is generally poorly tolerated by patients&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0035"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Olfactory evoked potentials &#40;OEP&#41;</span>&#46; OEPs collect the electrical activity &#40;of the olfactory bulb and&#47;or the frontal cortex&#41; using external electrodes while olfactory stimuli are applied&#46; For a quality record it is essential to stabilise the room temperature&#44; air humidity and the stimuli &#40;they must be applied every 30&#8211;45&#8239;s&#41;&#44; to overcome the difficulty of detecting a very slight signal&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0040"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Computed tomography &#40;CT&#41;</span>&#46; CT is very useful in imaging the sinonasal tract for evaluating inflammation&#46; Its use is indicated in nasal obstruction &#40;deviated nasal septum&#44; inferior turbinate hypertrophy&#44; nasal polyps or tumours&#41;&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0045"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Magnetic resonance imaging &#40;MRI&#41;</span>&#46; MRI evaluates the olfactory bulb and tract&#46; It is the method of choice when the suspicion is CNS lesions&#44; and it also allows direct visualisation of the olfactory bulb and extensions &#40;Kallmann syndrome or agenesis&#41;&#44; the skull base &#40;tumour invasion&#41;&#44; inflammatory lesions &#40;encephalitis or multiple sclerosis&#41;&#44; vascular lesions and other neoplasms&#46; The <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Barcelona Olfactory Identification Score</span> &#40;BOIS&#41; is a recently validated test which gives a score to the damage to the brain and olfactory structures associated with the loss of smell&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0050"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Positron emission tomography &#40;PET&#41;</span>&#46; PET indirectly measures the brain function using radioisotopes to visualise brain functions&#59; it has the unique advantage of providing measurement <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">in vivo</span> of specific brain functions&#44; such as the cortical responses to smells&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0055"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Functional magnetic resonance imaging &#40;fMRI&#41;</span>&#46; Unlike the previous technique fMRI does not require radioactive material and it detects the patient&#8217;s brain activity when performing psychocognitive&#44; sensory or motor tasks&#46; It identifies cortical areas that are activated in different parts of the brain when faced with olfactory stimuli&#58; entorhinal cortex&#44; amygdala&#44; insular cortex&#44; putamen and visual cortex&#46;</p></li></ul></p></span></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0035">Relationship between COVID-19 and olfactory dysfunction</span><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The presentation of OD in viral infections such as the common cold or flu is very common&#44; and many viruses lead to OD due to an inflammatory reaction in the nasal mucosa&#44; with increased production of mucus &#40;rhinorrhea&#41;&#44; and&#47;or in the neuroepithelium olfactory&#46; The commonly-known agents are rhinovirus&#44; parainfluenza&#44; Epstein&#8211;Barr virus and some coronaviruses&#46; The follow-up of postviral olfactory loss showed that over 80&#37; of patients had subjective recovery at one year&#46; The exact pathophysiology of postviral OD remains under study&#46; No specific upper respiratory symptoms allow COVID-19 to be reliably distinguished from other types of viral respiratory infections&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a></p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There appear to be two likely causes&#58; &#40;a&#41; during an upper respiratory infection the loss of smell occurs as a result of nasal swelling&#44; mucosal oedema and obstruction of the airflow into the olfactory cleft&#44; and&#47;or &#40;b&#41; a postviral loss of smell is caused by infection and direct swelling of the olfactory mucosa&#44; leading to the subsequent neurodegeneration of the olfactory neuroepithelium&#46; Damage to and dysfunction of the peripheral olfactory system&#44; revealed by hyposmia or anosmia&#44; could be a relevant indicator of disease progression<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Frequency of olfactory dysfunction during the COVID-19 pandemic</span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0045">Observational studies</span><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There is a current increase in papers reporting on the frequency of OD in patients with COVID-19&#46; These figures vary from 5&#37; to 85&#37; according to the country and the study &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0015">Fig&#46; 3</a>&#41;&#44; and can be classified according to regions and continents&#58; Asia &#40;China&#44; Singapore&#44; Wuhan&#44; Korea&#41;&#44; Europe &#40;Italy&#44; France&#44; United Kingdom&#44; Spain&#41; and America&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0050">Asia</span><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">One of the first published studies was from Iran&#44; based on telephone surveys&#46; It showed a significant increase in new-onset anosmia since the COVID-19 outbreak&#46; It also reported a strong correlation between the number of self-reported hyposmia&#47;anosmia cases and the COVID-19 cases&#44; with the frequency of OD being 87&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a></p><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Another case series &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;23&#41; also conducted in Iran&#44; regarding smell in COVID-19 patients&#44; showed that 83&#37; of its patients presented OD&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> while another study &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;42&#41; conducted in Israel reported OD at 35&#46;7&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a></p><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A study in China of hospitalised COVID-19 patients with pneumonia showed a loss of smell and taste of only 5&#46;1 and 5&#46;6&#37;&#44; respectively&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> In this study&#44; conducted by neurologists&#44; data was collected retrospectively from medical records&#44; which could have led to an underestimation of the true prevalence&#46; These nasal symptoms may not have been reported spontaneously because the patients were not questioned in a targeted manner&#44; and are consequently not reflected in the medical history&#46;</p><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Wee et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> in the study of an Asian cohort &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;154&#41; conducted in Singapore&#44; concluded that self-reported OD had high specificity as a detection criterion for COVID-19&#46; COVID-19 patients appeared to have higher odds of OD &#40;22&#46;7&#37;&#41; compared to those who were positive for other respiratory viruses&#46;</p><p id="par0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In Korea&#44; 3191 patients were included in a study by telephone interview and 15&#37; of COVID-19 patients were found to have anosmia at the onset of the disease&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a></p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0055">Europe</span><p id="par0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The first European study included 59 hospitalised patients in Italy&#46; 33&#46;9&#37; reported a taste or smell disorder&#44; and 18&#46;6&#37; both symptoms&#46; 20&#46;3&#37; had symptoms before hospital admission&#44; while 13&#46;5&#37; experienced the symptoms during the hospital stay&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a> Benezit et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> studied 68 patients with COVID-19 and concluded that 45&#37; had OD&#46; Klopfenstein et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a> analysed 114 patients confirmed with COVID-19 in France&#44; who confirmed OD in 47&#37; of cases&#44; with taste alteration in 85&#37;&#46; In this study OD was the third symptom in 38&#37; of cases&#46; OD developed 4&#46;4 days after the onset of infection&#46; A selective and population-based evaluation conducted in Iceland in 528 COVID-19 patients demonstrated an OD of 11&#46;5&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a></p><p id="par0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In another UK study&#44; 579 positive and 1123 negative COVID-19 patients were included&#46; The authors concluded that loss of smell and taste &#40;59&#37;&#41; is a strong predictor of having been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a></p><p id="par0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In Italy&#44; Vaira et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> reported an anosmia rate of 19&#46;4&#37; in 320 COVID-19 cases&#46; However&#44; the study does not provide information on the method used for measuring loss of smell&#46; In another Italian cohort &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;202&#41;&#44; similar results were described&#44; with an OD of 64&#46;4&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a></p><p id="par0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A multicentre study of 417 patients with COVID-19 carried out in 12 European hospitals in France&#44; Belgium&#44; Italy and Spain described a frequency of OD of 85&#46;6&#37; &#40;20&#46;4&#37; with hyposmia and 79&#46;6&#37; with anosmia&#41; and with an impact on the quality of life&#44; as well as 88&#46;8&#37; with taste disorders&#46; OD appeared before &#40;11&#46;8&#37;&#41;&#44; after &#40;65&#46;4&#37;&#41; or at the same time &#40;22&#46;8&#37;&#41; as the local symptoms in the ear&#44; nose and throat&#44; with the particularity of not being associated with rhinorrhea&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a></p><p id="par0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Lechien et al&#46;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> in a European multicentre study&#44; included 1420 patients with mild-moderate COVID-19 symptoms who did not require hospitalisation and observed an OD of 70&#46;2&#37;&#46;</p><p id="par0200" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the Netherlands in a study of healthcare workers&#44; anosmia was observed in 47&#37; of SARS-CoV-2 positive cases&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a></p><p id="par0205" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In Spain&#44; Beltr&#225;n-Corbellini et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> included 79 patients with COVID-19 and observed anosmia in 45&#37; of the cases&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0060">America</span><p id="par0210" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the United States&#44; Yan et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a> included a total of 1480 patients with influenza-like symptoms who underwent PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2&#46; Loss of smell and taste was reported in 68&#37; and 71&#37;&#44; respectively&#44; of COVID-19 positive patients &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;59&#41;&#44; compared to 16&#37; and 17&#37; of COVID-19 negative patients &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;203&#41; &#40;p&#8239;&#60;&#8239;0&#46;001&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0215" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">An international cross-sectional study &#40;United States&#44; Mexico&#44; United Kingdom and Italy&#41; in 237 patients with COVID-19 reported an OD of 73&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a></p></span><span id="sec0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0065">Olfactometry studies</span><p id="par0220" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Due to the limitations related to the spread of the disease&#44; emergency contingencies and the risk of contamination of healthcare personnel and patients&#44; it is difficult to methodologically implant the performance of smell tests &#40;olfactometry&#44; VAS&#41;&#46; Future studies using psychometric smell tests will be very important to corroborate these patient-reported subjective assessments of loss of smell&#46; To date there are only two studies that have used a smell quantitative tool&#46; In Iran&#44; Moein et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">28</span></a> used the UPSIT identification test&#44; which showed that 98&#37; of COVID-19 patients &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;60&#41; presented some type of OD&#44; with 33&#37; severe loss and 58&#37; anosmia&#46; Another study in Italy used the <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Connecticut Chemosensory Clinical Research Center</span> &#40;CCCRC&#41; olfaction test&#44; finding an OD of 73&#46;6&#37; &#40;53 patients&#41; in patients with COVID-19 &#40;n&#8239;&#61;&#8239;72&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a></p></span></span><span id="sec0070" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0070">Treatment</span><p id="par0225" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Three out of four COVID-19 patients present an improvement in OD one month after diagnosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a> This improvement over time suggests a competitive action of the virus on the smell and taste cell receptors or a local inflammatory phenomena&#44; rather than permanent damage to the olfactory neuroepithelium&#46; If OD persists&#44; it may be reasonable to consider treatment&#46; The efficacy of available treatments for postviral OD is unknown&#46;</p><p id="par0230" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Olfactory training involves repetition and repeated exposure to a set of odours &#40;lemon&#44; rose&#44; cloves and eucalyptus&#41; for 20&#8239;s each &#40;twice a day&#41; for at least 3 months&#46; Damm et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">30</span></a> conducted a randomised&#44; controlled and multicentre study concluding that olfactory training is a safe procedure and useful in patients who begin the training within 12 months after the onset of OD&#46; Olfactory training improves OD&#44; and the use of odours in high concentrations is beneficial for olfactory improvement&#46;</p><p id="par0235" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Oral and intranasal corticosteroids have been used to exclude an inflammatory component&#46; However&#44; they are not currently recommended for people with COVID-19 due to a lack of scientific evidence and risk of adverse effects&#46; In contrast&#44; patients who were using intranasal corticosteroids prior to developing COVID-19 should continue with this medication&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a></p><p id="par0240" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Other medications that have shown promise in postviral anosmia include&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0015"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0060"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0245" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Intranasal sodium citrate&#44; which appears to modulate olfactory receptor transduction cascades&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0065"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0250" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Intranasal vitamin A&#44; which may act to promote olfactory neurogenesis&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0070"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">-</span><p id="par0255" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Omega-3&#44; which may act through neuroregenerative or anti-inflammatory means&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="par0260" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">However&#44; to date&#44; there is no evidence that these therapies are effective in patients with OD related to COVID-19&#46; Long-term clinical studies are needed to investigate the spontaneous resolution and duration of OD and to define the therapeutic management of patients with permanent anosmia&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0075" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Conclusions and special recommendations</span><p id="par0265" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A sudden and severe OD in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the absence of other respiratory diseases&#44; such as allergic rhinitis&#44; acute or chronic rhinosinusitis&#44; should alert doctors to the possibility of a SARS-CoV-2 infection&#46; Studying the sense of smell in people with a clinical suspicion of infection can be useful to identify patients who require isolation measures and&#47;or initial treatment&#46; 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