CASE REPORT A 31-year-old woman with a 4-month history of dysgeusia (which had appeared suddenly) reported “having a salty taste in the mouth after eating any kind of food.” She had had Hodgkin’s lymphoma 10 years previously, which had been treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. She also had had Hashimoto thyroiditis, for which she was still taking levothyroxine (50 g daily). The patient h...

Abnormalities of taste and smell were studied in 29 patients after head trauma. These abnormalities included decreased taste acuity (hypogeusia), a distortion of taste acuity (dysgeusia), decreased smell acuity (hyposmia), and a distortion of smell acuity (dysosmia). This syndrome can occur even after minimal head trauma and can begin months after the moment of injury. The patients exhibited a ...

Although high-degree atrioventricular (AV) block in patients with a history of syncope usually requires pacemaker implantation, therapeutic strategies should also be considered. A 35-year-old man presented with complaints of palpitations, nausea and dysgeusia. Since aged 30, the patient had experienced three episodes of syncope. Holter monitoring showed transient high-degree AV block (up to 5:4...

and dysgeusia than the continuous regimen. Similarly, the muscle cramps and dysgeusia in the present patients resolved within 1 month after interrupting the vismodegib regimen. Although pharmacokinetic studies have shown suboptimal efficacy and similar incidence and severity of adverse effects when vismodegib, 150 mg, was used once weekly or 3 times weekly, no studies to our knowledge have inve...

most impaired quality of life that I have seen since I established my Taste and Smell Disorders Clinic in 1996 offers an opportunity to review the challenges of diagnosing and managing parosmia and parageusia. Before beginning, it is worthwhile to define parosmia and parageusia and the related phenomena of phantosmia and phantageusia. Parosmia is a form of dysosmia that refers to a usually very...

Otological complications of Ramsay Hunt syndrome include facial paralysis, tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo, dysgeusia, and skin eruption. The lower cranial nerves sometimes are affected by this neuritis. A case is reported of a man without immune-system impairment who had a cranial mononeuritis with unilateral involment of the VIII and VII cranial nerves after infection with varicella-zoster wi...