Increase in white matter hyperintensities in long‐COVID depends on age and hospitalization during acute SARS‐CoV‐2
Merve Atik, June Kendall‐Thomas, Scott A. Przybelski, Orhun H. Kantarci, Burcu Zeydan, Michel Toledano, Matthew L. Senjem, Christopher G. Schwarz, Angela J. Fought, Timothy G. Lesnick, Ana I Silva, James M. Joers, Katie Gundry, Alfredo Lorente, Jeromy Thotland, Dinesh K. Deelchand, Young Woo Park, X · 2025
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Merve Atik and co-authors studied bright spots on brain scans in people with long COVID in a 2025 paper. The spots, called white matter hyperintensities, show small areas of change in the brain's wiring and tend to grow with age and vessel harm. Whether long COVID speeds that growth was unclear.
The team found that any increase in the spots hinged on two factors: the patient's age and whether the first infection put them in hospital. That pattern ties scan changes to the severity of the early illness rather than to infection alone. The work helps doctors judge which long COVID patients merit brain follow-up, and it frames questions for longer tracking studies.
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| CREATOR | Merve Atik, June Kendall‐Thomas, Scott A. Przybelski, Orhun H. Kantarci, Burcu Zeydan, Michel Toledano, Matthew L. Senjem, Christopher G. Schwarz, Angela J. Fought, Timothy G. Lesnick, Ana I Silva, James M. Joers, Katie Gundry, Alfredo Lorente, Jeromy Thotland, Dinesh K. Deelchand, Young Woo Park, X |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |