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We Just Got More Evidence That Long COVID Is a Brain Injury (sciencealert.com)

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

what type of abnormalities are they seeing specifically?

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 day ago

FTA: Signs of ongoing inflammation in the brainstem, something that is seen in people with traumatic brain injury and people with chronic fatigue syndrome.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

oh, interesting.

so this new study is saying they can see on a small enough scale to find that scientifically consistent and significant inflammation in the brainstem directly linked to covid?

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 13 hours ago

Precisely. They had previously been unable to see this in living patients due to limitations of typical MRI machines but had found signs in the deceased. The major change is that, using a more powerful (7 Tesla) MRI machine, they were able to see these same symptoms in living patients for the first time.