Publication date: Oct 11, 2024
Ultra-detailed MRI scans show that severe COVID-19 damages the brainstem, a brain region responsible for vital functions like breathing. Rather, inflammation in the brain is a response to the infection in the body. Long COVID: What questions remain unanswered?The study does have certain limitations. Similarly, those with less severe COVID-19 and shorter hospital stays had fewer brainstem abnormalities. In the months following COVID-19, people often report fatigue, shortness of breath, coughs, and chest pain. The brainstem is the link between the brain and the spinal cord. As the authors explain, the study is quite small. They scanned their brains between 93 and 548 days after hospital treatment.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| 19the | Abnormalities |
| Brainencephalopathy | Brain |
| Fatiguebrain | Brainstem |
| Scientists | Breathing |
| Viral | Covid |
| Damage | |
| Explain | |
| Infection | |
| Long | |
| Mri | |
| Region | |
| Scanning | |
| Severe | |
| Symptoms | |
| Virus |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | viral infection |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Nonoxynol-9 |
| disease | MESH | dementia |
| disease | MESH | abnormalities |
| disease | MESH | confusion |
| disease | MESH | breathlessness |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Pirenzepine |
| disease | MESH | brain fog |
| disease | MESH | causes |
| disease | MESH | infection |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | MESH | long COVID |
| disease | MESH | chest pain |
| pathway | REACTOME | Release |
| disease | MESH | inflammation |
| disease | MESH | brain inflammation |
| pathway | REACTOME | SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
| disease | IDO | susceptibility |
| disease | IDO | process |
| disease | MESH | multiple sclerosis |
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