- A new con has found that COVID-19 can damage specific brain cells known as endothelial cells.
- It may be an explanation for the 84% of COVID-19 patients who disclose neurological symptoms.
- There’s hope that the damage may be reversible.
A new study has found that COVID-19 can compel damage to blood vessels in the brain, damaging cognitive function.
The study, conducted by scientists from Germany, France, and Spain, let it be knows that COVID-19 can kill brain cells known as endothelial cells.
Studies have previously found that up to 84% of COVID-19 patients suffer from neurological marks, anosmia (loss of sense of taste or smell), epileptic seizures, strokes, loss of consciousness, and confusion, and this may be an clarification as to why.
Insider’s Yelena Dzhanova previously covered how patients of COVID-19 suffer memory loss, even months after contracting the virus.
The examination was conducted by scanning the brains of corpses who had died from COVID-19.
The results of the research showed string vessels, a absolutely cell that cannot allow blood to flow, and is a sign of cognitive impairment, and has a number of medical risks, comprehending micro strokes.
—Nature Neuroscience (@NatureNeuro) October 21, 2021
There is hope, however, that this new facet of COVID-19 may be reversible.
“We be experiencing seen that in hamsters, who develop very minor forms of Covid-19, the phenomenon is apparently reversible, so we can yearning that it could also be reversible in humans,” a co-author of the paper, Vincent Prévot, from the Inserm research center in Lille, let something be knew RFI news.
COVID-19 is still a new virus, with a lot more information still being uncovered about it.