Rise in neurological issues faced by recovered Covid patients

A private health facility in the national capital on Saturday said it is reporting a rise in neurological issues among post-Covid patients. In the out-patient department (OPD), up to 60 per cent of patients are presenting increasing mental health issues like anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, and majority of these are post-Covid cases, the Moolchand Hospital said in a statement.

Doctors at the private facility said the neurological issues among post-Covid patients have seen a “troubling rise” here. The Moolchand Hospital said it has been “recording increasing cases of intracerebral (brain) haemorrhage, and 50 per cent of the neuroscience department is filled with such cases”.

The doctors also said that people who have survived the pandemic and those who were infected with Covid-19 are increasingly coming to the hospital many weeks later with symptoms such as headache, giddiness, fatigue, cognitive difficulties, memory problems, anxiety, depression, stroke, pain and sleep disorders. 

In the OPD, up to 60 per cent of patients are coming with mental health issues like headache, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, feeling of loneliness etc, the statement said. “Majority of these cases are those who have had Covid-19 infection in the past, with a gap of two to three months,” senior neurosurgeon at Moolchand Hospital, Dr Asha Bakshi, said.

“Such issues are severely affecting their personal as well as professional lives. Many complained that they find it extremely tough to focus during work. People are struggling with work-life adjustment issues as well,” she said. Bakshi said the pandemic has led to some long-term neurological issues. She cited the Global Consortium Study of Neurologic Dysfunction in Covid-19 (GCS-NeuroCOVID) and the European Academy of Neurology Neuro-COVID Registry (ENERGY) of over 3,700 patients.

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After 'black fungus', nasal aspergillosis is seen rising among Covid-19 patients

Nasal aspergillosis, which infects the sinuses, joins the growing list of deadly fungal infections that have tagged along with the Covid-19 virus, with at least eight patients in Vadodara being admitted on account of the disease. Two of Vadodara’s...

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Nasal aspergillosis, which infects the sinuses, joins the growing list of deadly fungal infections that have tagged along with the Covid-19 virus, with at least eight patients in Vadodara being admitted on account of the disease. Two of Vadodara’s......

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Nasal aspergillosis, which infects the sinuses, joins the growing list of deadly fungal infections that have tagged along with the Covid-19 virus, with at least eight patients in Vadodara being admitted on account of the disease.

Two of Vadodara’s. government hospitals, which are collectively 

treating 262 patients for mucormycosis or 'black fungus', have now 

reported cases of invasive nasal aspergillosis over the past week in 

Covid-19-positive and Covid-19-recovered patients, according to 

multiple media reports.

In the aftermath of the second Covid-19 wave in the country, a suite 

of fungal infections—black, white and yellow fungus—have been 

reported with increasing frequency, a trend health experts 

hypothesise could be a result of weakened immune systems due to 

excessive use of steroids to treat Covid-19 patients with acute 

diabetes and unsanitary use of oxygen cylinders.

The rapid spread of black fungus caused by a type of mould has 

prompted several states to declare it an epidemic to keep a tab on its 

spread and enforce measures to contain it.

Aspergillosis is also caused by a species of mould found all over the 

world called aspergillus in everything from the air to damp soil and 

decaying organic matter. While mostly harmless, some varieties 

could cause a range of diseases in humans ranging from simple 

allergic reactions to a life-threatening invasive disease.

The symptoms of the infection include a stuffy or runny nose, 

congestion, fever, facial pain and headache. A distinctive fungal ball 

of fungus fibers, mucus, cells and blood-clotting protein may also 

form in the sinuses and the infection could spread to other areas 

including the brain. Nasal aspergillosis is sometimes also linked with

bone loss of the facial bones.

Invasive nasal aspergillosis is far more common in severely 

immunocompromised patients, though non-invasive types can occur

 even in normal hosts, studies on the disease have shown. Nasal 

aspergillosis  has also been found to have a case fatality rate or

 deaths-to-cases ratio of 66%, according to a 2001 paper titled 

Aspergillosis Case-Fatality Rate: Systematic Review of the 

Literature.

All the fungal infections cropping up in the country at present are 

treated with a single antifungal drug called Amphotericin B, but the 

study had found that mortality due to the aspergillosis family of 

infections was high “despite improvements in diagnosis and despite 

the advent of newer formulations of amphotericin B.”

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