CONTEXT Alterations in taste and smell, including but not limited to anosmia, ageusia, hypogeusia, and dysgeusia, have been described in association with various medications, including anesthetic agents. Frequently, these symptoms occur 1-2 weeks after medication administration and last several months. While such a phenomenon is a rare occurrence, it nonetheless can significantly impact patient...

Clinical taste testing in humans is far from being routinely performed in ear, nose and throat (ENT) clinics. Consequently, most reports on posttraumatic and postoperative taste disorders are case reports and mainly consist of qualitative (e.g. dysgeusia, metallic taste) taste changes after either head injury or ENT surgery. Since quantitative taste deficiencies (ageusia, hypogeusia) often go u...

conclusions based on available literature recommendations for anesthesiologists caring for patients at risk for this occurrence are presented in this review. the symptoms are usually temporary as in the majority of the patients the sensory receptor cells are able to regenerate themselves after injury. anesthesia providers need to aware of this phenomenon to be able to reassure patients and poss...

Latar belakang : COVID-19 adalah penyakit pneumonia atipikal yang disebabkanSARS-CoV-2. Penyebaran dan tingkat kematian meningkat setiap harinya sertamanifestasi klinis beragam salah satunya manifestasi neurologis. Manifestasineurologis dari dapat memengaruhi baik CNS ataupun PNS dengandiagnosis seperti meningoencephalitis, kejadian cerebrovaskuler, kejang, GBS, dananosmia/ageusia (Desai,I., et...

Several studies indicate an essential role of the heterodimer Tas1R1-Tas1R3 for monosodium l-glutamate (MSG) detection, although others suggest alternative receptors. Human subjects show different taste sensitivities to MSG, and some are unable to detect the presence of glutamate. Our objective was to study possible relations between phenotype (sensitivity to glutamate) and genotype (polymorphi...

BACKGROUND The perception of sour taste in humans is incompletely understood at the receptor cell level. We report here on two patients with an acquired sour ageusia. Each patient was unresponsive to sour stimuli, but both showed normal responses to bitter, sweet, and salty stimuli. METHODS AND FINDINGS Lingual fungiform papillae, containing taste cells, were obtained by biopsy from the two p...

INTRODUCTION Anosmia, the loss of the sense of smell, is a rare adverse event associated with interferon alpha (INF-α). Millions of patients with hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are currently treated with INF-alfa-2a daily. Only 5 cases of anosmia have been reported in the literature, and none was associated with pegylated INF-alfa. CASE SUMMARY A 55-year-old Arab male (heig...