COVID-19 patients have "brain necrosis"! Italian patients are insane before they cough and have a fever.

Common features of patients with COVID-19's disease include fever and cough. However, some evidence points out that the loss of taste and smell is also one of the symptoms. Recently, there have been many cases in Europe and America, pointing out that COVID-19 will attack the brain, resulting in several cases of brain necrosis.

According to The New York Times, in early March, a 74-year-old man from Florida was taken to the emergency room with cough and fever, but X-ray examination ruled out pneumonia and he was sent home. The next day, his fever continued to worsen, he was short of breath and even lost the ability to speak.

Although the patient suffered from chronic lung disease and Parkinson's disease, the doctor still suspected that he had COVID-19, which was finally proved to be correct when he was examined.

In another case in Detroit, a female confirmed patient said that she was unconscious with headache. Brain tomography showed that her brain was abnormally swollen, some areas were inflamed, and brain cells had begun to die, so she was diagnosed as "acute necrotizing encephalopathy".

In addition, in clinical practice in Italy, some patients have similar results, and some patients may have limb sensory abnormalities such as stroke, epilepsy, encephalitis, limb numbness or numbness. Alessandro padovani, a doctor at the Italian University Hospital of Brescia, said that in some cases, patients were insane even before they had a fever or suffered from respiratory diseases.

Expert: Although brain injury is rare, it is quite fatal. Dr Elissa Fory, a neurologist at Henry Ford Medical System, said in an email: "This may indicate that the virus can directly invade the brain in rare cases. If so, the patient is in a critical state. 」

At present, Zhou, a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is leading a team to study the influence of COVID-19 on the brain. He said: "if the lung ruptures, we can also put a respirator on the patient and hope that he will recover;" But our brains don't have this luxury. 」

Zhang really has the possibility of encephalitis. Professor Zhang Nanji, an authoritative immunologist in Taiwan Province Province, explained: "Because COVID-19 mainly attacks the nasal cavity, and your mouth and nasopharynx are connected, the virus may also flow in it. He said that there may be meningitis and hearing abnormalities. " Because the virus has gone up, I am most worried that it may hurt the meninges. 」

In this regard, Zhang, the expert convener of Taiwan Province Command Center, said that there are no hearing-impaired patients at present. As for meningitis, it seems possible pathologically, but there are no cases in Taiwan Province province.