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Science articlesNew coronavirus infection in the practice of an otolaryngologist
V. I. Egorov (1), D. M. Mustafaev (1), A. O. Kochneva (1), Zh. E. Komarova (1)
(1) Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute, Moscow, 129110, Russia
UDK: 616.981.21/21.988.7:616.214.8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2020-4-8-12
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic that affects millions of people and kills hundreds of thousands of people. Chinese researchers found that the most common clinical manifestations of the disease were: fever, dry cough, shortness of breath, muscle weakness, muscle pain and various degrees of respiratory disorders. But despite this, a more in-depth understanding of COVID-19 revealed many other clinical manifestations. Cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, rhinorrhea, nasal congestion, acute tonsillitis, enlarged cervical lymph nodes, or dizziness are symptoms that an otolaryngologist may encounter when examining patients with COVID-19. And olfactory dysfunction has recently been recognized as an important symptom of COVID-19 and is increasingly being used as a tool to identify patients with COVID-19, particularly in cases of asymptomatic carriers who may unknowingly be the main cause of the spread of the disease. The analysis of detected cases of coronavirus infection and the diagnosis of upper respiratory pathologies in these patients, including olfactory dysfunction, allowed us to understand the frequency of their occurrence in the Moscow region, to compare with world data, and to evaluate their role, in the aspect of early diagnosis of COVID-19.
Publication date:
24.08.2020
Keywords:
Covid-19, olfactory dysfunction, ENT.
For citation:
Egorov V. I., Mustafaev D. M., Kochneva A. O., Komarova Zh. E. New coronavirus infection in the practice of an otolaryngologist. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2020;19(4):8–12. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2020-4-8-12