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Research Reveals Long Term Neurological Damage In Severe Covid-19 Patients
Dec 30 2020, 12:16AM EST
Preliminary medical studies of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 could have neurological complications resulting in stroke, inflammation, psychosis and symptoms similar to dementia. The study which was published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal showed data collected from 125 cases across the UK between April 2 and April 26.
Researchers focused mainly on severe cases where findings showed the most common brain complication was stroke. This was seen in 77 out of 125 patients who were mostly aged over 60. The patients were found to have mostly suffered a blood clot in the brain also called an ischemic stroke.