Myocarditis is rare in COVID-19 autopsies: cardiovascular findings across 277 postmortem examinations

MK Halushka, RS Vander Heide - Cardiovascular Pathology, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic, the result of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2, is
a major cause of worldwide mortality with a significant cardiovascular component. While a
number of different cardiovascular histopathologies have been reported at postmortem
examination, their incidence is unknown, due to limited numbers of cases in any given study.
A literature review was performed identifying 277 autopsied hearts across 22 separate
publications of COVID-19 positive patients. The median age of the autopsy cohort was 75 …