Researchers claim Coronavirus patients who recovered will have long lasting brain implications.
Recovered patients might suffer from brain dysfunction, strokes.
Coronavirus has spread its wings across the globe and is affecting the lungs of patients causing respiratory illness. However, Neuroscientists and brain doctors found in a research that recovered patients with mild symptoms might suffer from brain damage in the future and laid out evidence found in 43 patients in their study.
The study claims recovered patients might suffer from severe brain related illness such as brain dysfunction, strokes, serious brain effects and nerve damage.
“Whether we will see an epidemic on a large scale of brain damage linked to the pandemic – perhaps similar to the encephalitis lethargica outbreak in the 1920s and 1930s after the 1918 influenza pandemic – remains to be seen,” said Michael Zandi, from UCL’s Institute of Neurology, who co-led the study.
“My worry is that we have millions of people with Covid-19 now. And if in a year’s time we have 10 million recovered people, and those people have cognitive deficits … then that’s going to affect their ability to work and their ability to go about activities of daily living,” Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at Western University in Canada, told Reuters.
(ADEM) Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis is a kind of viral infection which is usually found in children and it’s diagnosed with a rare condition in nine cases of Coronavirus patients as published in the journal Brain.
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“Given that the disease has only been around for a matter of months, we might not yet know what long-term damage Covid-19 can cause,” said Ross Paterson, who co-led the study.
“Further, doctors stated that they should be aware of all neurological effects as soon the patients are diagnosed with Covid-19 and for this they need to do comprehensive study and global data collection in order to access that how common are going to be neurological complications.”
Owen is running an international research project where patients can sign up for a series of cognitive tests and can take their self assessment check whether their brain function has altered after this disease.
