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. 2020 May 7;48:107233. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2020.107233

Table 1.

Important findings in 23 autopsies subjects with COVID-19

Gender Male 12
Female 7
Not specified 4
Ethnicity African-American 5
Hispanic 2
Not specified 16
Age group Known: 34–76 21
Not Specified 2
Comorbidities* Hypertension 10
Obesity 9
Type II diabetes mellitus 5
Pulmonary pathology 23
Acute pneumonitis 20
  • Interstitial pneumonitis with DAD

  • Interstitial lymphocytic pneumonitis

  • Insipient interstitial pneumonitis

  • Bronchopneumonia with aspiration

16
1
2
1
Fibrin-rich thrombi in capillaries and small blood vessels 6§
Large pulmonary thromboemboli 5
Cardiac Pathology 23
Cardiomegaly, ranging 420–1070 g 13
Individual cardiomyocyte injury 8
Lymphocytic epicarditis/pericarditis 3
Lymphocytic myocarditis 1
Splenic Pathology, 6
Diminished white pulp with loss of marginal zones 6
Expansion of red pulp with lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate 3

Does not include WA cases (no specific data on number of cases/comorbidity provided).

No information about cardiac or splenic histology included in report from NY (report does note cardiomegaly in both cases).

No information about splenic findings included in report from LA.

§

Includes Tx case #2 but does not include TX case #1 with intravascular fibrin aggregates seen only by EM.