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The coronavirus also affects the kidneys and other organs.
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Scientists at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf Medical Center have discovered that Covid-19 is a “multi-organ virus”. This also provides information on possible damage resulting from an infection.
reThe new corona virus Sars-CoV-2 is not a pure respiratory virus. In addition to the lungs, it can also be found in many other organs and organ systems. This was the result of a study at the Eppendorf Hospital of the University of Hamburg (UKE), which was published on Thursday. According to the researchers, the results provide information on early detection and possible consequent damage from a Covid-19 infection.
In their study, UKE kidney experts, microbiologists and legal experts analyzed the autopsy results of 27 people who died from a Covid-19 infection. Specifically, scientists were able to detect the pathogen in the lungs, throat, heart, liver, brain, and kidneys. The highest concentrations of the virus per cell were found in the respiratory tract, followed by the kidneys, heart, liver, brain, and blood.
This makes “Sars-Covid-2” a “multi-organ virus” that affects many organs. This could explain the wide range of symptoms that sometimes appear in corona infections. After the respiratory tract, the kidneys are particularly affected. This also explains the extremely high rate of up to 50 percent acute kidney failure in crown infections, according to experts.
Dialysis machines were also becoming scarce
As a consequence of these results, urine tests are now recommended at the beginning of a coronavirus disease. Other studies should show whether changes in urine can serve as an early warning system for severe Covid courses 19.
In addition, aftercare also wants to pay much more attention to secondary diseases of the individual organ systems. Because every second patient leaves the hospital after recovery with slightly increased kidney values. According to Professor Tobias B. Huber, director of the UKE study, the kidneys still have recovery potential even after acute failure.
The study results have been published in the current issue of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Due to the large accumulation of severe kidney failure in the intensive care unit, it also reports a shortage of dialysis machines. “It sank a bit that in Italy and New York, in addition to ventilators, there was also a lack of dialysis machines,” Huber said. UKE therefore purchased additional equipment.
