{"id":81965,"date":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.institutchiaribcn.com\/comunicacion\/is-there-a-relation-between-covid-19-and-filum-disease\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:41:45","slug":"relation-covid-19-filum-disease","status":"publish","type":"comunicacion","link":"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/en\/relation-covid-19-filum-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a relation between COVID-19 and Filum Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-muted aniview centerTXT\">Published by\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by ICSEB\" href=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/en\/author\/anoop\/\" rel=\"author\">ICSEB<\/a>\u00a0at 17 March, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Covid-19-filum-diease.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-wrap img-responsive alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Covid-19-filum-diease.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to answer this question, we have to consider the following:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The COVID-19 is a new disease that has recently transferred from an animal species to humans. Therefore, we know very little about it, it is only 3 months and 18 days old.<\/li>\n<li>We are not aware of any Filum Disease case with COVID-19. Although most likely there are tens of thousands.<\/li>\n<li>We know that patients with COVID-19 present fever, headache, dry cough and, in the most severe cases, respiratory distress which affects the lungs.<\/li>\n<li>The COVID-19 behaves similarly to a common flu. In the majority of cases, 80% can go unnoticed or with very few symptoms.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Given the above-mentioned considerations, we suppose that:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The COVID-19 can increase the headache, as the intracranial pressure increases due to the infectious process and coughing, the latter being considered a Valsalva maneuvre. This can worsen the symptomatology of a possible descent of the cerebellar tonsils or Arnold-Chiari Syndrome Type I.<\/li>\n<li>Cough in COVID-19 can as well aggravate the symptomatology of a syringomyelic cavity, similarly to cough in common flu, that is to say, generally in a very mild way.<\/li>\n<li>Lung involvement in COVID-19 can add to the involvement of the respiratory centre in the brain stem, which can occur in the Filum Disease. This can as well aggravate a restrictive lung syndrome in a severe idiopathic scoliosis. In exceptional cases.<\/li>\n<li>With time, we will see whether COVID-19 affects other organs such as the nervous system, the cardiac system or others. This will condition the prognosis of the association Filum Disease and COVID-19. As far as we have observed, there is little or no possible involvement of other organs due to the COVID-19.<\/li>\n<li>In general, the Filum Disease does not represent an increased risk for the COVID-19.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":81966,"template":"","tipos-de-comunicacion":[512],"class_list":["post-81965","comunicacion","type-comunicacion","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipos-de-comunicacion-news-announcement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19 and Filum Disease: is there a relation? | ICSEB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Considerations on possible interactions between COVID-19 and Filum Disease symptoms; cautious observations and guidance.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/en\/relation-covid-19-filum-disease\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 and Filum Disease: is there a relation? 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