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The new corona virus is always good for surprises. A study has concluded that it is not just the lungs that are affected.
Munich: takes two months coronavirus Around the world. And it always surprises us again. This also applies to scientists. Why SARS-CoV-2 is far from fully investigated *, many diagnoses should be marked with question marks. Now it turns out that the disease caused by the Covid-19 virus more than a pure lung disease seems to be.
That puts one Study at the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center (UKE) Near. Because the virus apparently also affects many other organs of the human body. Tobias Huber, head of the study, emphasizes: “SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus, is not just a lung virus, but one Multi-organ virusThis would be indicated by examinations of 27 patients who died of Covid-19.
The coronavirus affects several organs: the kidneys, the heart or the liver are also affected.
For the sick, they are Kidneys The second most affected organ after the lungs. According to Huber, director of III. Medical and polyclinic clinic at UKE, “total organic failure is not uncommon …” The pathogen is also detected in the patient’s heart, liver, brain and blood state. The highest concentrations were found in the cells of the respiratory tract.
Kidney disease is probably the reason why Covid 19 patients are common, according to Huber. Urine abnormalities. exposition. “This could also explain the extremely high rate of up to 50 percent of acute kidney failure in patients with Covid 19,” adds the study director.
“SARS-CoV-2 is a multi-organ virus”: Tobias Huber of UKE leads the study.
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Coronavirus affects several organs: “We have to watch all the symptoms”
His conclusion: the possible infestation of other organs should be taken into account when treating patients with a crown. “We must all symptoms * in sight not just air shortage, “Huber explains. Other studies should also clarify the extent to which changes in urine as Early warning system for severe courses of Covid-19 could serve
So far in Berlin at least eleven dead autopsies Covid-19. This stems from a response by the Senate Health Department to a parliamentary question from left-wing MP Wolfgang Albers. The most common causes of death were consequently Blood poisoning in pneumonia (four cases), Pulmonary failure (three cases) and Heart failure (two cases) diagnosed. In all eleven cases, the Charité Institute of Pathology found that the causes of death “were causally caused by Covid-19”.
Coronavirus in children: planned study with 6000 healthy and sick volunteers
The new Study C19. Hamburg boy it is to show how often children and adolescents become infected and how susceptible they are to a serious course of infection. In addition to Children’s UKE, all other Hamburg children’s hospitals are also involved in this research. Doctors want data from around 6,000 healthy and chronically ill children and adolescents with and without Covid symptoms 19.
At the same time, research must be carried out on “how big is that Risk of spread of the new coronavirus by asymptomatic children is and if children with chronic diseases increased risk of a severe course of a Covid-19 infection have healthy children “, explains the director of the UKE Clinic and Polyclinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Ania C. Muntau.
Warns against too quick conclusions about clinical pictures in children: Ania C. Muntau presents the plans for study C19. Hamburg boy.
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Coronavirus in children: no evidence of disease severity or frequency
Muntau says public opinion surprised her, often with great certainty, that children do not develop Covid-19, or do not develop it severely. there is no evidence of this have. “So far, it hasn’t been thoroughly investigated.” So it’s an absolutely open question, if children and how often and how seriously do they get sick“
Children are alone very restrictively tested state. “And maybe we have one there very high number of unreported cases and they have a very high percentage of positive children without symptoms, who play a very important role in what is happening in the population, the spread of the pandemic. “For Hamburg, she could say:” We have there are no seriously ill cases seen And I think we would have noticed. “
Another study suggests that a simple test can warn you of a serious course of the disease days in advance. Health Minister Jens Spahn insists on the introduction of immunity cards, otherwise traveling abroad would be in danger.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer presents the first concrete plans for opening borders. According to the WHO, the coronavirus may never go away completely. The pandemic tears the largest fiscal hole in the history of the Federal Republic.
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