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Well this is interesting...
Here's a new, fascinating paper that detected inflammatory cells in the eye in Long Covid patients 2-3 months after infection. Since the optic nerve at the back of the eye is part of the nervous system, and the optic nerve is a major route for drainage of brain lymph, inflammatory cells in the eye is sometimes a marker of inflammation in the nervous system:
Subclinical ocular inflammation in persons recovered from ambulatory COVID-19 (Bakhoum et al., September 2020)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.22.20128140v2
It's not yet peer-reviewed, but here is an excerpt:
NOTE: To understand the difference between Classical Inflammation and Neuroinflammation, see:
https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...n-in-me-subcortical-brain.80923/#post-2289868
Here's a new, fascinating paper that detected inflammatory cells in the eye in Long Covid patients 2-3 months after infection. Since the optic nerve at the back of the eye is part of the nervous system, and the optic nerve is a major route for drainage of brain lymph, inflammatory cells in the eye is sometimes a marker of inflammation in the nervous system:
Subclinical ocular inflammation in persons recovered from ambulatory COVID-19 (Bakhoum et al., September 2020)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.22.20128140v2
It's not yet peer-reviewed, but here is an excerpt:
(emphasis added)Bakhoum et al 2020 said:Abstract: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is characterized by striking variability in clinical severity, and a hyperinflammatory response in the lung is associated with high mortality. Little is known about the extent and duration of inflammation in persons recovering from COVID-19. Here, we used spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) to detect the presence of inflammatory cells in the vitreous cavity, an immune-privileged microenvironment, in persons recovered from COVID- 19. Our results provide quasi-histologic evidence that neuroinflammation is present in persons who recovered from COVID-19, only one of whom required hospitalization. Our results also suggest that persons who feel that their recovery is incomplete have evidence of subclinical eye inflammation, which may be a marker of residual inflammation elsewhere as well.
NOTE: To understand the difference between Classical Inflammation and Neuroinflammation, see:
https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...n-in-me-subcortical-brain.80923/#post-2289868
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