This is one of the dark discoveries of the pandemic: the Covid-19 disease, initially perceived as a virulent respiratory disease, attacks much more than the lungs. We have already noticed that other organs, such as the kidneys, are affected.
The formation of clots in blood vessels can suffocate the limbs. When they form in the veins of the leg (phlebitis), they can dislodge themselves and go up towards the lungs, block the artery there and put them at a stop (pulmonary embolism). In the heart, they can cause a heart attack. When they go to the brain, it’s a stroke.
All of these scenarios were seen in Covid-19 patients who had no risk factors other than getting the new coronavirus. Normally, against clots, blood thinners like heparin are given. But it doesn’t always work and sometimes causes internal bleeding.
First in China, then in Europe, and now in the United States, doctors learn on the job and try to document the phenomenon. “I’ve seen hundreds of clots in my career, but I didn’t never seen so many extreme abnormal cases“Behnood Bikdeli, an internal medicine specialist at the Columbia University Medical Center, told AFP.
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