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Doctors in the US USA They have sounded alarmed that people in their 30s and 40s die of stroke from the coronavirus. The Washington Post reported that young and middle-aged people, just ill with COVID-19, are dying of strokes.
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New Delhi: Doctors in the US USA They have sounded alarmed that people in their 30s and 40s die of stroke from the coronavirus. The Washington Post reported that young and middle-aged people, just ill with COVID-19, are dying of strokes. The report says doctors sound an alarm about 30- and 40-year-old patients who are weakened or dead. Some did not even know they were infected. The report says there has been an increase in stroke, and reports of strokes in the young and middle-aged at other hospitals in communities affected by the new coronavirus are the latest twist in the evolutionary understanding of the disease it causes.
The number of people affected is small but remarkable because they challenge the way doctors understand the virus, according to the report. “Once thought to be a pathogen that primarily attacks the lungs, it has become a much more formidable enemy, affecting almost every major organ system in the body,” the report said.
Until recently, there was little concrete data on traces and COVID-19. There was a report from Wuhan, China, which showed that some hospitalized patients had suffered strokes, and many were seriously ill and elderly. But the link was seen more as “a clinical feeling from a lot of really smart people,” said Sherry H-Y Chou, a neurologist and critical care physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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Now, for the first time, three major US medical centers. USA They are preparing to publish data on the phenomenon of stroke. There are only a few dozen cases per location, but they provide new insights into what the virus does to our bodies, the Washington Post said. A stroke, which is a sudden interruption of the blood supply, is a complex problem with numerous causes and presentations. It can be caused by heart problems, clogged arteries due to cholesterol, even substance abuse. Mini-bumps often do not cause permanent damage and can resolve on their own within 24 hours. But the biggest ones can be catastrophic.
Analyzes suggest that coronavirus patients are primarily experiencing the deadliest type of stroke. Known as large vessel occlusions, or LVO, they can destroy large parts of the brain responsible for movement, speech, and decision-making in one fell swoop because they are in the main arteries that supply blood.
Many researchers suspect that strokes in patients with COVID-19 may be a direct consequence of blood problems that cause clots throughout the body of some people. The clots that form on the vessel walls fly upward. One that started in the calves could migrate to the lungs, causing a blockage called pulmonary embolism that stops breathing, a known cause of death in patients with COVID-19. Clots in or near the heart can cause a heart attack, another common cause of death. Anything above that would probably go to the brain and cause a stroke.
The report says many doctors expressed concern that the New York City Fire Department was picking up four times as many people who died at their home during the peak of infection than normal because some of the dead had suffered sudden strokes. The truth may never be known because few autopsies were performed. Chou said a question is whether the clotting is due to a direct attack on the blood vessels or a “friendly fire problem” caused by the patient’s immune response.
“In your body’s attempt to fight the virus, does the immune response end up damaging your brain?” she asked. Chou hopes to answer those questions through a review of strokes and other neurological complications in thousands of COVID-19 patients treated at 68 medical centers in 17 countries.
