Strokes have been reported in patients between the ages of 30 and 50
MEXICO – American doctors They have expressed their concern due to the relationship that they have observed between the ailments of COVID-19, disease caused by the new coronavirus, and the strokes in patients between 30 and 50 years old.
These spills, caused by the generation of multiple blood clots in arteries, veins, brain and other central parts of the body, have overcome the original speculations that the virus only affected andl lung function and they suggest that you are dealing with a much more formidable enemy.
Sherry H-Y Chou, intensive care neurologist the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centerdeclared to The Washington Post that there was already a preliminary report issued from the city Wuhan china -origin of the outbreak-, which stated that various patients hospitalized for COVID-19 they had also suffered spills cerebrovascular.
However, he said, at first this link was only seen as “A clinical hunch”.
Now, strokes, sudden interruptions in the blood supply, constitute one of the most recent relationships that have been established with the effects that the new coronavirus it produces inside the systems it invades. The study and observation of this correspondence, health specialists point out, may shed light on questions that had not even been considered to ask.
Chou elaborated on the possibility that these spills are manifested because the virus attacks blood vessels or if it is a reaction caused by resistance of the immune system to the COVID-19.
“In your body’s attempt to fight the virus, does the immune response end up damaging your brain?” He asked.
The analyzes that have been carried out so far suggest that Covid-19 sufferers may be prone to experience quite severe strokes, capable of destroying parts of the brain responsible for movement and speech.
The most disturbing finding, however, is that these types of conditions should generally manifest themselves in people of much higher age ranges.
Robert Stevens, an intensive care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), called the strokes “one of the most dramatic manifestations” of blood clotting problems.
“We have cared for 30-year-old patients with strokes and Covid, and this was extremely surprising.” he declared to the Post.
During the weeks of exponential infections, the hospital chain of the Thomas Jefferson University, which operates 14 medical centers in Philadelphia, and New York University’s Langone Health found that 12 of their patients admitted for major blood blocks in their brains were infected with coronavirus.
Forty percent of them were under the age of 50 and had few, if any, risk factors.
Pascal Jabbour, neurosurgeon at Thomas Jefferson, assured The Washington Post that the connection between strokes and COVID-19 challenges the norms of conventional clinical thinking. Eytan Raz, assistant professor of neuroradiology at NYU Langone also stated that the convergence of these two ills in patients constitutes an area unknown to medical personnel.
“We have never seen so many (strokes) present in people in their 50s, 40s, or 30s,” he said.
Jabbour explained that these cases had unusual characteristics because brain clots almost always appear in the arteries, which move blood away from the heart. But in Covid-19 patients these blockages also show up in the veins and head.
For his part, the medical researcher ofl Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, in Manhattan – New York City’s largest health system – said that the number of patients who were admitted because of large blood blocks in their brains in recent weeks doubled.
Of these patients, 32 tested positive for COVID-19. The average age of these people is 15 years younger than that of people with cardiocerebral strokes who do not suffer from the virus.
“These are people among the least likely statistically to having a stroke, ”Mocco told The Washington Post. Regarding the link between the disease caused by the new coronavirus and the spills, the doctor pointed out that it is “a signal too powerful to be a coincidence.”
Despite the fact that the virus has infected 2 million 892 thousand 508 people worldwide and deprived of life 203 thousand 139, its biological mechanisms continue to represent a challenge for the most outstanding scientific minds.
Reports of strokes in young and middle-aged people in different hospitals around the world are the latest turn in the evolutionary understanding of COVID-19.
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