COVID-19, transferred to the severe form can lead to brain lesions, including strokes and dementia. A study by British scientists published in the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet Psychiatry.
A group of researchers observed 125 heavy patients in the intensive care unit of a London hospital. After their recovery, according to the report of scientists, 77 patients developed stroke, while 33 showed signs of confusion and behaviour change. Nine patients recovered from coronavirus, was subsequently diagnosed with indeterminate dysfunction of the brain, and 23 manifested mental disorder.
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Virologist Anatoly Altstein, commenting on research by British colleagues, said that the coronavirus has the ability to multiply in vascular endothelium, and therefore can reach parts of the brain.
“If a person is “lucky” and the infection goes such way that the virus will multiply in the blood vessels of the brain, mental disorders is possible,” said the virologist in razgovra edition Sobesednik.ru.
The Professor said that scientists were observing seriously ill patients, so the results were frightening. But most people said Altstein carry the virus in a mild form. Earlier, the Russian doctors said that for the majority of people infected with coronavirus illness will pass without any serious complications and the more neurological.
