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 |
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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.