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Postmortem Cardiopulmonary Pathology in Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Single-Center Report of 12 Autopsies from Lausanne, Switzerland
We report postmortem cardio-pulmonary findings including detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissue in 12 patients with COVID-19. The 5 women and 7 men (median age: 73 years; range 35–96) died 6–38 days after onset of symptoms...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34441292 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081357 |
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author | Berezowska, Sabina Lefort, Karine Ioannidou, Kalliopi Ndiaye, Daba-Rokhya Maison, Damien Petrovas, Constantinos Rotman, Samuel Piazzon, Nathalie Milowich, Dina Sala, Nathalie Tsai, Chun-Yi Multone, Eleonore Bochud, Pierre-Yves Oddo, Mauro Bisig, Bettina de Leval, Laurence |
author_facet | Berezowska, Sabina Lefort, Karine Ioannidou, Kalliopi Ndiaye, Daba-Rokhya Maison, Damien Petrovas, Constantinos Rotman, Samuel Piazzon, Nathalie Milowich, Dina Sala, Nathalie Tsai, Chun-Yi Multone, Eleonore Bochud, Pierre-Yves Oddo, Mauro Bisig, Bettina de Leval, Laurence |
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description | We report postmortem cardio-pulmonary findings including detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissue in 12 patients with COVID-19. The 5 women and 7 men (median age: 73 years; range 35–96) died 6–38 days after onset of symptoms (median: 14.5 days). Eight patients received mechanical ventilation. Ten patients showed diffuse alveolar damage (DAD), 7 as exudative and 3 as proliferative/organizing DAD. One case presented as acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia. Seven patients (58%) had acute bronchopneumonia, 1/7 without associated DAD and 1/7 with aspergillosis and necrotic bronchitis. Microthrombi were present in 5 patients, only in exudative DAD. Reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR detected high virus amounts in 6 patients (50%) with exudative DAD and symptom-duration ≤14 days, supported by immunohistochemistry and in-situ RNA hybridization (RNAscope). The 6 patients with low viral copy levels were symptomatic for ≥15 days, comprising all cases with organizing DAD, the patient without DAD and one exudative DAD. We show the high prevalence of DAD as a reaction pattern in COVID-19, the high number of overlying acute bronchopneumonia, and high-level pulmonary virus detection limited to patients who died ≤2 weeks after onset of symptoms, correlating with exudative phase of DAD. |
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spelling | pubmed-83937612021-08-28 Postmortem Cardiopulmonary Pathology in Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Single-Center Report of 12 Autopsies from Lausanne, Switzerland Berezowska, Sabina Lefort, Karine Ioannidou, Kalliopi Ndiaye, Daba-Rokhya Maison, Damien Petrovas, Constantinos Rotman, Samuel Piazzon, Nathalie Milowich, Dina Sala, Nathalie Tsai, Chun-Yi Multone, Eleonore Bochud, Pierre-Yves Oddo, Mauro Bisig, Bettina de Leval, Laurence Diagnostics (Basel) Article We report postmortem cardio-pulmonary findings including detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissue in 12 patients with COVID-19. The 5 women and 7 men (median age: 73 years; range 35–96) died 6–38 days after onset of symptoms (median: 14.5 days). Eight patients received mechanical ventilation. Ten patients showed diffuse alveolar damage (DAD), 7 as exudative and 3 as proliferative/organizing DAD. One case presented as acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia. Seven patients (58%) had acute bronchopneumonia, 1/7 without associated DAD and 1/7 with aspergillosis and necrotic bronchitis. Microthrombi were present in 5 patients, only in exudative DAD. Reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR detected high virus amounts in 6 patients (50%) with exudative DAD and symptom-duration ≤14 days, supported by immunohistochemistry and in-situ RNA hybridization (RNAscope). The 6 patients with low viral copy levels were symptomatic for ≥15 days, comprising all cases with organizing DAD, the patient without DAD and one exudative DAD. We show the high prevalence of DAD as a reaction pattern in COVID-19, the high number of overlying acute bronchopneumonia, and high-level pulmonary virus detection limited to patients who died ≤2 weeks after onset of symptoms, correlating with exudative phase of DAD. MDPI 2021-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8393761/ /pubmed/34441292 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081357 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Berezowska, Sabina Lefort, Karine Ioannidou, Kalliopi Ndiaye, Daba-Rokhya Maison, Damien Petrovas, Constantinos Rotman, Samuel Piazzon, Nathalie Milowich, Dina Sala, Nathalie Tsai, Chun-Yi Multone, Eleonore Bochud, Pierre-Yves Oddo, Mauro Bisig, Bettina de Leval, Laurence Postmortem Cardiopulmonary Pathology in Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Single-Center Report of 12 Autopsies from Lausanne, Switzerland |
title | Postmortem Cardiopulmonary Pathology in Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Single-Center Report of 12 Autopsies from Lausanne, Switzerland |
title_full | Postmortem Cardiopulmonary Pathology in Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Single-Center Report of 12 Autopsies from Lausanne, Switzerland |
title_fullStr | Postmortem Cardiopulmonary Pathology in Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Single-Center Report of 12 Autopsies from Lausanne, Switzerland |
title_full_unstemmed | Postmortem Cardiopulmonary Pathology in Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Single-Center Report of 12 Autopsies from Lausanne, Switzerland |
title_short | Postmortem Cardiopulmonary Pathology in Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Single-Center Report of 12 Autopsies from Lausanne, Switzerland |
title_sort | postmortem cardiopulmonary pathology in patients with covid-19 infection: single-center report of 12 autopsies from lausanne, switzerland |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34441292 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081357 |
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