Long Covid patients who lost sense of smell can be helped with surgery
Coronavirus
A surgical operation normally carried out to correct a blocked nasal passage may help patients who lost their sense of smell after contracting a Covid-19 infection, according to new research by UCL and UCLH researchers. UCL and UCLH research clinicians had already shown in a 2023 paper* that the procedure – functional septorhinoplasty (fSRP) – can restore the sense of smell following a viral infection or trauma. They have now found it could be an option for long Covid patients with an impaired
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