Evaluation of children and adults with post-COVID-19 persistent smell, taste and trigeminal chemosensory disorders: A hospital based study
Sherifa Ahmed Hamed, Eman Bahaa Kamal-Eldeen, Mohamed Azzam Abdel-Razek Ahmed
Sherifa Ahmed Hamed, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut 71516, Egypt
Eman Bahaa Kamal-Eldeen, Department of Pediatrics, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut 71516, Egypt
Mohamed Azzam Abdel-Razek Ahmed, Department of ENT, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut 71516, Egypt
Author contributions: Hamed SA, Kamal-Eldeen EB and Ahmed MAA designed the conception, did data collection and physical examinations. Ahmed MAA did ear, nose and throat evaluation; Kamal-Eldeen EB and Ahmed MAA referred the patients to the neurologist (Hamed SA) and critically reviewed the manuscript; Hamed SA applied the objective measurements for smell and taste and the final statistical analyses, wrote the manuscript and had the final responsibility to submit the manuscript for publication; All authors had full access to raw data and verified the underlying data and interpretation of the results and final approval of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The protocol of the study was in accordance to the revised Helsinki Declaration (2013) and approved by the medical research ethics committees of the Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, No. AUH_SARS-CoV2_SAH/2019.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Sherifa Ahmed Hamed, MD, Professor, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University Street, Assiut 71516, Egypt. hamedsherifa@aun.edu.eg
Received: February 27, 2023
Peer-review started: February 27, 2023
First decision: March 15, 2023
Revised: March 16, 2023
Accepted: April 20, 2023
Article in press: April 20, 2023
Published online: June 9, 2023
