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. 2021 Jan 7;63:103182. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103182

Table 1.

Clinico-pathological findings in COVID-19 positive patients at autopsy.

PATIENT AGE (years) GENDER MAIN CLINICAL COMORBIDITIES CARDIAC INVOLVMENT (CLINICAL AND/OR postmortem diagnosis) CAUSE OF DEATH
1 70 Male Prostate adenocarcinoma, arterial hypertension, kidney transplantation due to Alport syndrome. Moderately increased T-Troponin,
Histologically focal peracute terminal myocardial ischemia.
DAD/ARDS and pneumonia.
2 77 Female Cutaneous melanoma (stage IIB), arterial hypertension. Clinically not known, histologically focal peracute terminal myocardial ischemia. DAD/ARDS, pneumonia
3 79 Male Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, pulmonary hypertension, obesity (BMI 32.9 kg/m2). Moderately increased T-Troponin, histologically fibrin-thrombi in myocardial capillaries. DAD/ARDS, pneumonia
4 58 Female Diabetes mellitus type 2, arterial hypertension, obesity (BMI 37.8 kg/m2) Clinically acute myocardial infarction, strongly increased T-Troponin. At autopsy no thrombi in coronaries, but histologically peracute myocardial ischemia. DAD/ARDS, pneumonia, intestinal ischemia
5 81 Male COPD, arterial hypertension, prostate cancer. Moderately increased T-Troponin, intraventricular thrombosis. Focal peracute myocardial ischemia. DAD/ARDS, pneumonia
6 45 Male Diabetes mellitus type I, diabetic nephropathy, kidney transplantation due to diabetic nephropathy, post-transplant, PTLD Moderately increased T-Troponin, focal peracute myocardial ischemia.intraventricular thrombosis. Histologically focal peracute terminal myocardial ischemia DAD/ARDS, pneumonia

Abbreviations. COPD: chronic obstructive lung disease, PTLD: post transplant lymphoproliferative disease, ARDS: adult respiratory distress syndrome, DAD: diffuse alveolar damage.