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Research: The corona causes the body to attack itself Israel today

2020-10-29T10:06:05.098Z


| healthU.S. researchers have found that in some patients the immune system attacks the body, as in lupus • "The findings have implications for the treatment of long-term symptoms" "Whenever there is a disease with severe inflammation, there is a potential for the body to develop an autoimmune disease." Photography:  Reuters A new study from Emory University in Atlanta, USA, found that some corona pa


U.S. researchers have found that in some patients the immune system attacks the body, as in lupus • "The findings have implications for the treatment of long-term symptoms"

  • "Whenever there is a disease with severe inflammation, there is a potential for the body to develop an autoimmune disease."

    Photography: 

    Reuters

A new study from Emory University in Atlanta, USA, found that some corona patients develop a phenomenon in which the body's immune system attacks it - such as lupus and chronic arthritis.

The study explains why some corona patients suffer from long-term symptoms for months after recovery, and it also raises the concern that some recoverers will suffer all their lives from such conditions that will require medical attention.

The study found that the body's immune system reacts so severely to corona that it also attacks the body's blood thinners, which explains why patients suffer from hypercoagulability and problems with the blood and heart system.

The phenomenon is caused by the body reacting sharply to the disease - and trying to develop antibodies.

However, in a state of hypertension, some of the body's cells break down and release into the blood coils of genetic material from the cells of the body themselves.

In this condition, sometimes the B cells in the body that fight the virus mistakenly identify these helices as a virus - developing antibodies that attack the DNA helices of the body itself instead of those of the virus.

In their study, Dr. Woodruff and colleagues from the Emory University Research and Medical Center examined 52 corona patients who had no histories of previous medical problems. Surprisingly, they found in half of the patients cells that attack systems in the body itself, especially one of the proteins that prevent clotting of Blood.In 70 percent of the patients there was some learning of the body's immune system which was conducted to attack the body's cells and not the disease.

"Our findings have important implications for treating those patients with long-term symptoms. We can not cure the immune system attack, but we can reduce it as we do with lupus and chronic arthritis. That way we can alleviate some of these patients," the lead researcher said. Immunologist Matthew Woodruff of Emory University.

The new study, published in MedRxiv, has not yet undergone orderly peer review, but many researchers struggling with corona agree with its findings, noting that they are consistent with symptoms in some patients with the disease.

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki of Yale University commented on the findings of the study: "I am not at all surprised by the conclusions. This situation can happen in both mild and moderate patients."

According to Marion Pepper, an immunologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, "Whenever there is a disease with severe inflammation, there is a potential for the body to develop an autoimmune disease and attack itself."

According to her, since this is a preliminary study, its long-term consequences should be examined.

Ann Marshak-Rothstein, an immunologist and expert on lupus disease at the University of Massachusetts: "Some of the blood clotting problems seen in corona patients may be due to body activity rather than the disease. If this is true, we may see recurrences of such problems in recovering patients."

Source: israelhayom

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