changes in the lungs that occurs when COVID-19 is likely to be associated with excess iron in the body. As it turned out, the coronavirus can cause damage to the hemoglobin gene that causes blockage of the iron atom. The result is a surplus of iron, and at some point there comes oxygen starvation.
the Emergence of complications can be recognized at the level of the protein ferritin, which is produced in the liver.
This discovery, the researchers said, explains why the damage to the lung tissue when COVID-19 can only be seen when performing computed tomography. X-ray examination there helplessly. Although ordinary pneumonia, it “sees”.
“what changes in the lungs that occur when mers is not like pneumonia, first noticed by Chinese, and then confirmed the Americans and the Israelis,” – said in an interview aif.ru Vice-President of Russian scientific medical society of physicians Professor Leonid Lazebnik.
the Expert added that the abundance of ferritin triggers “cytokine storm” (or hypercytokinemia), which in some cases is the cause of sudden death patients.
