Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and UMC Utrecht share the first hopeful results of brain scans of 2 patients with long-term complaints after a COVID-19 infection. In both patients, the image shows a lot of brain inflammation, something that has not been demonstrated before. ZonMw reports that.
Both Lung COVID patients, a man and a younger woman, have undergone a costly and invasive brain scan within this study. The images show that they have much more brain inflammation in the whole brain compared to the images of healthy people from before the corona pandemic. These are the first hopeful results of the VeCosCO study, which is still in progress. Patients who qualify for these advanced brain scans are recruited from the first part of the study, in which the most complete picture of the patients’ complaints is sketched using questionnaires.
Need more research
Research is needed in several patients to learn more about the relevance of these initial findings. The VeCosCO study started in the autumn of 2021 and has a duration of 15 months for the time being.
By: National Care Guide