A series of autopsies conducted by LSU Health New Orleans pathologists shows the damage to the hearts of COVID-19 patients is not the expected typical inflammation of the heart muscle associated with myocarditis, but rather a unique pattern of cell death in scattered individual heart muscle cells. They report the findings of a detailed study of hearts from 22 deaths confirmed due to COVID-19 in a Research Letter published in Circulation, available here.
Their previously reported results revealed diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) – damage to the small airspaces of the lung where gas exchange occurs – along with blood clots and bleeding in the small blood vessels and capillaries of the lung, were the major contributors to death.
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