Some symptoms of COVID-19 have surprised doctors.
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A month ago, when a good part of the country began to confine itself, COVID-19 seemed to be the variation of a respiratory disease that caused a contagious and lethal virus and without vaccine or treatment. Since then, doctors treating him have begun to realize that it not only attacks the lungs but also the kidneys, heart, intestine, liver and brain.
Doctors have also started to come across surprising symptoms like extremely low oxygen levels, which under normal conditions would cause patients to be unconscious or close to death. Or with asymptomatic pregnant women who have a sudden cardiac arrest. Or with patients with mild illnesses that worsen within minutes and die at home.
Although they do not have clear patterns in terms of age or chronic conditions, some scientists have hypothesized that at least some of these abnormalities can be explained by severe changes in patients’ blood, as published The Washington Post.
Some doctors have raised the controversial possibility of giving preventive anticoagulants to all COVID-19 sufferers, even those who could cope with the disease at home.
Autopsies have shown that some people’s lungs fill with hundreds of micro clots. Larger blood clots could break loose, travel to the brain or heart and thus cause a stroke or heart attack, the newspaper said.
“The problem we have is that while we understand that there is a clot, we still don’t understand why there is a clot,” said Lewis Kaplan, a doctor at the University of Pennsylvania. “We do not know. And therefore we are afraid. “
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