Researchers indicate brain damage in patients with severe cases of coronavirus.
As a basis for their research, scientists from Canada and Brazil used data from patients in ICUs in China and France.
247 - Researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (Idor), and Queen's University in Canada published a study on the possibility of damage to the central nervous system in severe cases of coronavirus. The article was published in the scientific journal Trends in Neurosciences on Tuesday, the 21st.
As a basis for their research, the scientists used data from coronavirus patients in ICUs in China and France, where they observed brain damage in a significant proportion of hospitalized patients.
“In some cases, we have seen cases of stroke, in some minor cases encephalitis, which is an inflammation of the brain and can be quite serious. In others, loss of consciousness and other alterations such as delirium, indicating that the central nervous system is being affected,” explained Fernanda de Felice, professor at the Institute of Medical Biochemistry (IBqM) at UFRJ.