Harry Spoelstra

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Interesting study, excellent explanation 🧵👇 LongC0VID patients show measurable CNS tissue loss in the retina >1 year post-inf, a thinning that tracks with symptoms and mirrors MS. Vessels fine at rest, nerves not!! Objective damage, reversible? We don't know yet! 🤔

Zdenek Vrozina

Zdenek Vrozina

New study out of TUM Munich looked at long COVID through the retina. It is the one place in the body where you can see CNS nerve tissue and CNS blood vessels directly, non invasively. A window into the brain. And this window showed something most retinal COVID threads miss🧵