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Covid-19 is considered an airway disease at the beginning of the pandemic. But doctors have to fight the new symptoms because the virus spreads throughout the body. According to a recent study, the kidneys are particularly affected.
According to a study by the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center (UKE), the new coronavirus affects not only the lungs but also many other organs. “Sars-CoV-2, the new corona virus, is not just a lung virus, but a multi-organ virus,” said Tobias Huber, head of the study. This has been demonstrated by studies of 27 patients who died from Covid-19. Another study at UKE will examine the frequency and severity of infections in children.
The kidney is the second most affected organ in the disease after the lungs, “not infrequently until complete organ failure,” said Huber, director of III. Medical clinic and polyclinic at UKE. In addition, the pathogen had been detected in the patients’ heart, liver, brain, and blood. The highest concentrations were found in the cells of the respiratory tract.
Kidney infection is probably the reason why Covid 19 patients often have abnormalities in their urine, Huber said. “It could also explain the extremely high rate of up to 50 percent acute kidney failure in patients with Covid 19.”
Possible infestation of other organs should be considered when treating patients with a crown. “We have to monitor all the symptoms, not just the shortage of air,” Huber said. Other studies should also clarify to what extent changes in urine could serve as an early warning system for severe Covid courses 19.
Corona wants to study in children
So far, at least eleven Covid-19 deaths have been autopsy in Berlin. This stems from a response released Thursday by the Senate Health Department to a parliamentary question from left-wing MP Wolfgang Albers. The most common causes of death were blood poisoning from pneumonia (four cases), lung failure (three cases), and heart failure (two cases). In all eleven cases, the Charité Institute of Pathology found that the causes of death were “causally caused by Covid-19,” he said.
The new C19.Child Hamburg study is intended to show how often children and adolescents become infected and how susceptible they are to a serious course of infection. Doctors want to include data from around 6,000 healthy and chronically ill children and adolescents with and without Covid symptoms 19.
At the same time, research should be conducted on “how great is the risk of the spread of the coronavirus by asymptomatic children and whether children with chronic diseases are at greater risk of developing a serious Covid 19 infection than healthy children,” said the director of the clinic and polyclinic for UK Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Ania C. Muntau.
Muntau said she was surprised by public opinion, which is often held with great certainty that children do not develop Covid-19, or that it is not serious, “because we simply have no evidence. So far, it has not been thoroughly investigated. “In this regard, it is an absolutely open question whether and how often and how severely children get sick.”
The children were also evaluated in a very restrictive way. “And we may have a very high number of unreported cases there and a very high percentage of positive children without symptoms who play a very important role in what is happening in the population and the spread of the pandemic.” In any case, for Hamburg, she could say: “We have not seen any seriously ill cases. And I think we would have noticed them.”
