Blood vessel damage, inflammation in COVID-19 patients brains: Study ANI | Updated: Jan 03, 2021 13:50 IST
Washington [US], January 3 (ANI): A team of researchers from National Institutes of Health, in an in-depth study of how COVID-19 affects a patient s brain, have consistently spotted hallmarks of damage caused by thinning and leaky brain blood vessels in tissue samples. These damage hallmarks were spotted in patients who died shortly after contracting the disease.
In addition, they saw no signs of SARS-CoV-2 in the tissue samples, suggesting the damage was not caused by a direct viral attack on the brain. The results were published as correspondence in the New England Journal of Medicine.