American doctor warns: Wuhan’s pneumonia fears damage to brain and nervous system-News-Rti Central Radio

In addition to fever, cough, and shortness of breath, Wuhan pneumonia (COVID-19) patients at New York Hospital in the United States also have other symptoms, such as not knowing where they are and what year they are in. night. The doctor warned that Wuhan’s pneumonia must be alert to brain and nerve damage.

Neurologist Jennifer Frontera of New York University Langone Hospital (NYU Langone Hospital) inspected these patients and told AFP that the discovery caused concern about the brain and nervous system caused by COVID-19 Influence.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week found that 36.4% of the 214 Chinese patients experienced neurological symptoms, including loss of smell, neuralgia, and stroke.

The New England Journal of Medicine published an article this week to examine 58 patients in Strasbourg, France, and found that more than half of the patients were confused or restless, and brain imaging showed inflammation.

Andrew Andrewson, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, said: “You still hear that this is a respiratory problem, but it also affects the brain that interests us most.”

For scientists, it is not so surprising that the COVID-19 coronavirus can affect the brain and nervous system, because other viruses, including HIV, have similar situations.

Michel Toledano, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, explained that the virus affects the brain in two ways.

One is to trigger an abnormal immune response from the cytokine storm to cause brain inflammation, and the other is to directly infect the brain, i.e. viral encephalitis.