Postmortem examination of COVID‐19 patients reveals diffuse alveolar damage with severe capillary congestion and variegated findings in lungs and other organs suggesting vascular dysfunction
Histopathology2020Vol. 77(2), pp. 198–209
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Thomas Menter, Jasmin D. Haslbauer, Ronny Nienhold, Spasenija Savic, Helmut Hopfer, Nikolaus Deigendesch, Stephan Frank, Daniel Turek, Niels Willi, Hans Pargger, Stefano Bassetti, Jörg D. Leuppi, Gieri Cathomas, Markus Tolnay, Kirsten D. Mertz, Alexandar Tzankov
Abstract
This study provides an overview of postmortem findings in COVID-19 cases, implying that hypertensive, elderly, obese, male individuals with severe cardiovascular comorbidities as well as those with blood group A may have a lower threshold of tolerance for COVID-19. This provides a pathophysiological explanation for higher mortality rates among these patients.
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