coronavirus, a study suggests.Scientists used an MRI scanner to study brain tissue samples from patients who died after becoming infected.They saw signs of damage caused by "thinning and leaky" brain blood vessels.Researchers say it may have been caused by the "body’s inflammatory response to the virus".But the team from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US saw no signs of Covid-19 in the samples.They say this suggests the damage was not caused by the virus directly infecting the brain.Avindra Nath, clinical director at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said: "We found that the brains of patients who contract infection from SARS-CoV-2 may be susceptible to microvascular blood vessel damage."Our.
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