The emerging spectrum of cardiopulmonary pathology of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Report of 3 autopsies from Houston, Texas, and review of autopsy …

LM Buja, DA Wolf, B Zhao, B Akkanti… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper collates the pathological findings from initial published autopsy reports on 23
patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from 5 centers in the United States of
America, including 3 cases from Houston, Texas. Findings confirm that COVID-19 is a
systemic disease with major involvement of the lungs and heart. Acute COVID-19
pneumonia has features of a distinctive acute interstitial pneumonia with a diffuse alveolar
damage component, coupled with microvascular involvement with intra-and extravascular …