Medical Xpress March 10, 2025
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 published in the journal Facial Plastic Surgery.
The 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 sense of smell (persistent olfactory dysfunction of more than two years) if existing treatments such as smell training and oral/topical corticosteroids fail. The researchers, however, also cautioned that this was early stage research and replicating the...
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