Deans' stroke musings: Study finds COVID-19 brain damage but no infection

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Study finds COVID-19 brain damage but no infection

It is your doctor's responsibility to prevent such damage. DEMAND EXACT PROTOCOLS FOR SUCH PREVENTION.

Study finds COVID-19 brain damage but no infection

By Kate Madden Yee, AuntMinnie.com staff writer

January 4, 2021 -- A study conducted by a team of researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) found brain damage in patients who died of COVID-19 but no signs of SARS-CoV-2 in tissue samples. The research was published December 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study results suggest that the brain damage "was not caused by a direct viral attack," senior author Dr. Avindra Nath said in a statement released by the NIH.

"We found that the brains of patients who contract infection from SARS-CoV-2 may be susceptible to microvascular blood vessel damage," Nath said. "Our results suggest that this may be caused by the body's inflammatory response to the virus."

Although COVID-19 primarily manifests in the respiratory system, patients also experience neurological complications. The reas...

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