Doctors from the Department of Internal Medicine at Mt. Sinai Queens believe it’s “highly likely” COVID contributed to the 62-year-old’s fatal prion disease.
, experts say the coronavirus could also contribute to another health condition: deadly brain diseases.
Two months before he was admitted to the hospital, the 62-year-old Queens local started to drool and move at a slower pace, the doctors wrote in an article published Thursday by theThe unidentified man was only taken to the medical facility after he was found at home after a fall, unable to walk and confabulating, with intermittent brief rapid involuntary jerks.
Medics performed a series of tests on the man, including CT brain and MRI scans of the brain, “both of which were repeated twice and were normal without any diffusion restriction.”Doctors from the Department of Internal Medicine at Mt. Sinai Queens believe COVID was “highly likely” in either causing or contributing to a New York City man’s fatal prion disease.
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