With each passing day, new details about the Novel Coronavirus disease code 19 are emerging and how it is wreaking havoc on the body.Earlier it was reported that the disease can lead to heart problems, kidney damage and mental health complications.
In addition, the problem of blood clots forming innumerable small lumps or clots has also been found in very sick people, which greatly increases the chances of death.
A few months ago, another aspect of the virus became a mystery to medical experts around the world, which was called silent or happy hypoxia.
If you don’t know, know that hypoxia causes a lack of oxygen in the body’s tissues or blood, but the effect it has on patients with COD 19 has never been seen or heard of before.
Some Code 19 patients have very low blood oxygen levels, but they still talk to doctors, scroll through their phones, and feel better.
Although under normal circumstances, such a lack of oxygen in the body does not leave the body able to walk or talk, and such a lack can lead to fainting or even death, but patients with code 19 appear to be able to walk and walk despite such a lack. Are
The level of oxygen in the blood is usually 95% and in lung diseases like pneumonia, if this level decreases, it has side effects, ie the lungs start filling with water or the level of carbon dioxide starts rising.
That is why it has been named as Happy or Silent Hypoxia because the patients of Code 19 have seen a reduction of 80, 70 and even 50 percent instead of 95 percent.
Scientists have now discovered a possible cause of this, and that is the significant dilation of blood vessels in the lungs.
This was revealed in a medical study conducted in the United States.
Research from the Ashkenazi School of Medicine shows that blood vessels in the lungs of people with COD-19 become very dilated, resulting in a drastic decrease in oxygen levels, which explains why it is associated with other such diseases. Like why it is different from ARDS.
The findings were published in the medical journal American Journal of Receptive and Critical Care Medicine.
In ARDS, inflammation of the lungs usually causes fluid to leak from the arteries, causing fluid to build up in the lungs, causing it to harden and affect its oxygen capacity.
Numerous patients with code 19 who are diagnosed with pneumonia do not show such lung stiffness.
Due to which, the medical experts had said that the severe lack of oxygen in Code 19 is different from the traditional symptoms of ARDS.
This new discovery is considered to be very important in that the blood circulation in the patients on the ventilator of Code 19 was analyzed in different ways.
The researchers said it was “surprising” that a diagnostic machine used for a brain tested the depth of a lung disease.
The study looked at 18 patients on a ventilator who became very ill as a result of code 19.
Tiny bubbles were seen in 15 of the 18 patients, indicating abnormally wide openings in the pulmonary arteries.
In contrast, only 26% of ARDS patients had such tiny blisters.
The number of these bubbles in Code 19 patients may explain why they do not show effects despite severe oxygen deprivation.
The researchers said that it was becoming increasingly clear that the virus was disrupting lung function in a variety of ways, and that the results could help explain the strange puzzle of abnormal oxygen deprivation in some COD 19 patients.
He said that if confirmed in further research reports, the number of these tiny bubbles would help predict the severity of Code 19.
The study has now been extended to 80 patients, some of whom do not have high levels of code 19, to determine the severity of the effects of these tiny bubbles