So while some of the previously mentioned causes of anosmia or
hyposmia can also affect taste, factors such as age, smoking, certain medications and cancer treatment can also affect your taste buds, either by reducing your sense of taste or by causing an unpleasant taste to linger in your mouth.
In our study, all the 50 patients (100%) had complaints of nasal obstruction followed by nasal discharge in 30 patients (60%),
hyposmia in 14 patients (28%), postnasal discharge in 10 patients (20%), headache in 6 patients (12%) and sneezing in 5 patients (10%).
rs11931074 was proved to be strongly associated with PD risk, and there were studies reporting its specific clinical features such as
hyposmia and RBD as stated above [12-14].
GNRHR defects produce AR, isolated nIHH, with no evidence of accompanying developmental defects such as
hyposmia (65,66,67).
Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma from a 59-year-old woman who presented with a history of left-sided nasal obstruction and
hyposmia. Computerized tomography scan revealed a left-sided nasopharyngeal mass, extending to the lateral nasal wall (A, arrow).
Based on the aforementioned history, physical examination, radiographic evaluation, and biochemical data indicative of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with
hyposmia, the patient was diagnosed with Kallmann syndrome with severe osteoporosis due to hypogonadism.
Associated symptoms include rhinorrhea,
hyposmia, frontal headache, facial pain, proptosis, diplopia, and epiphora [13].
The clinical diagnosis of sinusitis is generally characterized by the following symptoms [7]: facial pain, facial pressure, facial congestion, nasal congestion, nasal obstruction, nasal discharge, purulence or discolored postnasal drainage,
hyposmia or anosmia, fever, purulence on intranasal examination, headache, halitosis, fatigue, dental pain, cough, ear pain, and ear pressure.
Hyposmia is a frequent symptom in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) [1], and synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease (PD), Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) [2].
Neurological complaints, such as mild mental or motor dysfunction, vertigo, epileptic attack,
hyposmia, were present in a much lower degree (from 2.3 to 9.3% of patients) in addition to oculomotor paresis with subjective complaints of diplopia and proptosis.
Olfactory disorders (OD) are generally dichotomized in qualitative (parosmia, phantosmia, olfactory agnosia) and quantitative olfactory disorders (QODs:
hyposmia, anosmia, hyperosmia).
Three of our patients were asymptomatic and two presented with a headache and
hyposmia. CT scan showed ground glass opacity of inferior turbinate.