Researchers review how COVID-19 affects more than the lungs

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Jul 22, 2020 | News | Jerusalem & Area
Researchers review how COVID-19 affects more than the lungs

Physicians at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Columbia University Irving Medical Center conducted a study on how COVID-19 affects the body, mainly focusing on how the respiratory infection affects more than the lungs, in order to provide clinical guidance for physicians attending to coronavirus infections.

"Scientists all over the world are working at an unprecedented rate towards understanding how this virus specifically hijacks biological mechanisms of the human body that are normally protective," said co-lead author Kartik Sehgal, MD, a hematology/oncology fellow at BIDMC's Cancer Center. "We hope that our review will be a comprehensive resource for physicians, nurses and other health care workers caring for patients with COVID-19, and provide impetus to consideration of all organ systems involved while developing research priorities and therapeutic strategies."


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