Bacterial superinfections among persons with coronavirus disease 2019: a comprehensive review of data from postmortem studies

CJ Clancy, IS Schwartz, B Kula… - Open Forum Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Limited clinical data suggest a~ 16% prevalence of bacterial superinfections
among critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Methods We …

Systematic review of microthrombi in COVID-19 autopsies

R Parra-Medina, S Herrera, J Mejia - Acta haematologica, 2021 - karger.com
Background: Histopathological analysis can provide additional clues in COVID-19
understanding. During the last year, autopsy reports have revealed that diffuse alveolar …

Pulmonary pathology of COVID-19: a review of autopsy studies

AC Borczuk - Current opinion in pulmonary medicine, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The heterogeneity of fatal cases-persistence of viral infection in lung, clearance of virus but
severe lung injury, thrombosis, and exaggerated immune response–suggest that antiviral …

Anatomical and pathological observation and analysis of SARS and COVID-19: microthrombosis is the main cause of death

W Chen, JY Pan - Biological Procedures Online, 2021 - Springer
The spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 for short) has caused a large
number of deaths around the world. We summarized the data reported in the past few …

Pathological findings in COVID-19 as a tool to define SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. A systematic review

C Mondello, S Roccuzzo, O Malfa… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic in March
2020. COVID-19 still represents a worldwide health emergency, which causesa severe …

Implications of microscale lung damage for COVID-19 pulmonary ventilation dynamics: a narrative review

E Dimbath, V Maddipati, J Stahl, K Sewell, Z Domire… - Life Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic surges on as vast research is produced to study the novel SARS-
CoV-2 virus and the disease state it induces. Still, little is known about the impact of COVID …

The handling of SARS-CoV-2 associated deaths-infectivity of the body

AS Schröder, C Edler, B Ondruschka, K Püschel… - … Science, Medicine and …, 2021 - Springer
The body of a deceased with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) infection is considered infectious. In this study, we present the results of infectivity …

Autopsy tool in unknown diseases: the experience with coronaviruses (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2)

F Sessa, M Salerno, C Pomara - Medicina, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the last two decades, three unknown pathogens have caused outbreaks, generating
severe global health concerns. In 2003, after nucleic acid genotyping, a new virus was …

Unlocking the lockdown of science and demystifying COVID-19: how autopsies contribute to our understanding of a deadly pandemic

A Tzankov, D Jonigk - Virchows Archiv, 2020 - Springer
A rapidly evolving sweeping pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) leading to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has …

[HTML][HTML] Histopathological findings in COVID-19 cases: A Systematic Review

H Hammoud, A Bendari, T Bendari, I Bougmiza - Cureus, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has turned into one of the
most serious public health crises of the last few decades. Although the disease can result in …