The Potential Detrimental Effects on Multiple Organ Systems in COVID-19 Patients |Biomedgrid

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes COVID-19, which spreads between people, mainly when an infected person stays in close contact with another one. The infection starts off with mild flu-like symptoms to severe in the several aspects. In the most cases, COVID-19 patients usually develop mild to moderate illness and recover at home stay with nominal medications. The usual signs of COVID-19 are fever, dry cough, loss of taste, tiredness etc., in very rare cases symptoms are difficulty in breathing, muscle pain, chest pain, loss of speech or movement etc. The deceased people from COVID-19 reveal the expected features of severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The virus seems to directly cause inflammation in the small capillaries or blood vessels leading to blood clots and damage heart, liver, brain and kidneys. In some people, it can affect the blood, digestive tract and immune system, causes multiple organ failure and resulting in death. Most critical patients showed signs of organ functions damage, including ARDS in 67%, acute kidney injury (AKI) in 29%, cardiac injury in 23%, liver dysfunction in 29%, and pneumothorax in 2%.