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A Follow-Up Case of Voice Changes in Acute COVID-19 Infection

급성 COVID-19 감염의 음성 변화 추적 관찰 1예

  • Seung Jin, Lee (Division of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Research Institute of Audiology and Speech Pathology, College of Natural Sciences, Hallym University)
  • 이승진 (한림대학교 자연과학대학 언어청각학부 및 청각언어연구소)
  • Received : 2022.10.14
  • Accepted : 2022.12.15
  • Published : 2022.12.31
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Abstract

Dysphonia is well known as one of the otolaryngological symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. The vocal changes of the COVID-19 condition have been reported in terms of parameters of multi-dimensional voice assessment, including acoustic analysis, auditory-perceptual evaluation, and psychometric assessment. However, there has not been a daily followup study in patients with acute COVID-19 infection. In this study, a 41-year-old male performed daily voice recordings of vowel phonation and passage-reading tasks during the self-quarantine period of one week. Compared to the normal voice status of the prepandemic period, voice abnormalities peaked on day two after the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection and recovered after one week.

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Acknowledgement

The author is grateful to SLP Hye Rim Chae at the Gangnam Severance Hospital for her help with auditory-perceptual evaluation.

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