Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar¹, Md Moshiur Rahman²*, Sabrina Rahman³, Ivan David Lozada-Martinez⁴ and Mohammed Maan Al-Salihi⁵

¹Center for Biomedical Research (CIB), Faculty of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
²Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery Department, Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh
³Department of Public Health, Independent University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
⁴Medical and Surgical Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
⁵Medical Doctor, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

*Corresponding Author: Md Moshiur Rahman, Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery Department, Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Received: August 12, 2021; Published: August 28, 2021

  The recent pandemic associated with the new coronavirus has represented a new paradigm in different aspects of medicine [1]. The neuroinvasive properties verified regarding SARS-Cov2 have allowed us to know how this virus affects multiple organs and systems in the human body [2,3]. One of the affected structures is the hypothalamus, an anatomical region located in the diencephalon with different vital functions for the body's normal functioning [4,8].

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Citation

Citation: Md Moshiur Rahman., et al. “Hypothalamus and Hypothalamic Dysfunction in COVID-19”. Acta Scientific Neurology 4.9 (2021): 54-55.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Md Moshiur Rahman., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.