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At Umeå University Hospital, researchers have discovered that it is the hyaluronic acid molecule, an important component of the basic substance in connective tissue. Report P4 Västerbotten on Thursday morning.
– It acts in many different ways and increases in inflammatory conditions. Covid-19 is a disease that causes very strong inflammation, and in this case in the lungs, says professor and chief physician Anders Blomberg, from the channel’s Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine.
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Severe lung failure
He explains that hyaluronic acid may help explain the severe lung failure that occurs in those who die or become seriously ill from the coronavirus.
– It is not the case that hyaluronic acid is the only explanation for why it dies, but it is an important clue. We have succeeded in staining the hyaluronic acid in the lungs of patients who have passed away, to show that it is hyaluronic acid that is found in the lungs, says the professor.
Creepy finds of the heart
It is especially the lungs that are seriously attacked in patients who become seriously ill with the coronavirus. Already at the beginning of the pandemic, it became clear that the virus forms a very distinctive pattern in the lungs, with so-called white dots.
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Damaged lungs
Healthy lungs look mostly black on medical scans, precisely because they are filled with air. Pneumonia caused by viruses tends to appear as white spots in sections of the lungs, which in technical language is called ground glass constipation.
In people with SARS-CoV-2, the above spots tend to adhere to the outer edge of the lungs, on the ribs.
Pulmonologist Elestin Borna, of the National Association for Heart and Lung Disease Hospital in Gardermoen, previously told Dagbladet that patients who survive the disease often have destroyed lungs with fibrosis and scarring.
