Meanwhile, there are numerous indications that the novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 affects not only the lungs and respiratory tract, but other organs solid and also the heart, the vessels, the nerves, the kidneys and the skin hard can reset.
British neurologists have now released shocking details in the journal “Brain”, according to which SARS-CoV-2 even in patients with mild symptoms, or already people who have recovered from serious brain damage can cause. And often, these lesions are only detected very late or not at all.
For more than 40 British COVID-19-patients, neurologists diagnosed at the University College London (UCL), an acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM). In this inflammatory disease, a degenerative destruction of the Central nervous system that affects the myelin sheaths of the nerves in the brain and spinal cord.
“As COVID-19 brain attacked, we did so in the case of other viruses never seen before”
Of the studied patients suffered from a 12 to an inflammation of the Central nervous system, ten to a temporary encephalopathy (brain disease) go with a Delirium or psychosis, eight strokes and eight more to problems of the peripheral nerves, usually with the diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome. This is an immune reaction that attacks the nerves and paralysis and in 5% of cases are fatal. A 59-year-old woman died of the complication.
“The way COVID-19 attacked the brain, we have seen in the case of other viruses never before,” said Dr. Michael Zandi, a senior author of the study and consultant to the University College London Hospitals. Uncommon, especially the serious brain damage even in patients with mild symptoms are.
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Coronavirus-risk: damage is often not detected
The now published cases confirm the fears that COVID-19 caused in some patients on long-term health problems. Many patients long after their recovery, breathless and tired. Other Convalescent suffer from numbness, weakness, and memory problems.
“Biologically, some Similarities with Multiple sclerosis has been seen in ADEM, but they are more severe and usually occurs only once. In some patients, long-term disability will remain, others will recover well,” said Michael Zandi.
The entire spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 caused brain diseases and late effects may not have been listed yet, so Zandi, since many patients are in hospitals too ill, to investigate it with brain scanners, or other methods.
“We want to make physicians around the world on this complications of Coronavirus attention,” said Zandi. Doctors and medical personnel should consult in patients with cognitive symptoms, memory problems, fatigue, numbness, or weakness in any case, a neurologist.
study published also dramatic individual fates
also in contact with were Published at the end of individual destinies, for example, from a 47-year-old woman felt after a week with cough and fever, sudden headache and numbness in the right Hand. In the hospital, she was drowsy and unresponsive. In the case of an emergency surgery had to be a part of the skull removed to relieve the pressure on her swollen brain.
A 55-year-old patient without any history of mental illness began the day after the hospital to conduct dismissal is strange. Again and again she pulled on her coat, and began to hallucinate, saw monkeys and lions in your house. Back in the hospital, she received anti-psychotic medication.
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Subtle brain damage could only be in a few years
The British neurologists fear that the COVID-19-disease could be left in some patients, subtle brain damage, which only in the coming years. Similar late effects according to the study, even after the devastating Spanish flu of 1918, when up to a Million people brain damage have worn.
“We hope of course that something like this happens, but if you have such a great pandemic that affects a large part of the population, we need to be vigilant,” said Dr. Michael Zandi from the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
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