Table 1.

Major clinical and autopsy findings of patients deceased after lethal COVID-19.

Age	Sex	Comorbidity	Diagnoses	Organ	Tissue Findings	Inflammatory Cells *	Bleeding	Thrombosis	Edema
58	M	DM2 1	ARDS 2	lungs	DAD 3, interstitial pneumonia	Ly, Pl, Ma, PMN 4	no	yes	yes
		Hypertension	pulmonary emboly pneumonia interstitialis	heart	myocardial fibrosis atherosclerosis	PMN	no	no	yes
		Steatosis hepatis	atherosclerosis
			dilatatio cordis	brain	brain edema	PMN, Mo	yes	no	yes
54	M	Obesity Hypertension	ARDS (DAD)	lungs	DAD, inerstitial pneumonia, DIC	Mo, PMN	yes	no	yes
			pneumonia
			DIC 5	brain	edema, DIC	PMN, Mo	yes	yes	yes
			myocardial fibrosis hypertrophia and dilatatio cordis	heart	myocardial fibrosis	Mo	no	no	no
			steatosis hepatis renal ATN 7	liver	steatosis hepatis	Mo	no	no	no
55	M	Hypertension	(sepsis staphylococcica) ARDS (DAD)	lungs	DAD, pneumonia abscedens	PMN	no	no	yes
			pneumonia abscedens	brain	brain edema	Ly. PMN, Mo	no	no	yes
			steatosis hepatis	liver	steatosis hepatis	Ly, PMN	no	no	no
			atherosclerosis heart dilatation	heart	myocardial fibrosis	PMN	no	no	no
57 6	M		(sepsis A. baumanii), ARDS (DAD)	lungs	pneumonia chronica and suppurativa, DAD	Ma, Mo, Ly, Pl, PMN	yes	yes	yes
			pneumonia	kidney	renal ATN	PMN	no	no	no
			renal ATN	heart	myocardial fibrosis and lipomatosis	Ly	no	no	no
			myocardial fibrosis	liver	centrilobular cyanosis	Ly	no	no	no
				brain	brain edema	Ly, Mo	no	no	no
65	M	DM2	bilateral pneumonia	heart	myocardial fibrosis	Ly, Mo, PMN	no	no	no
		Hypertension Hyperlipidemia	pulmonary microthrombosis	lungs	lung fibrosis, Chronic DAD, acute hemorrhage	Ma, PMN	yes	yes	yes
		Atherosclerosis	atherosclerosis	kidney	renal ATN	PMN	no	no	no
		IBD 8	heart hypertrophia	liver	steatosis hepatis	Ly, PMN	no	no	no
			myocardial fibrosis	heart	myocardial fibrosis	PMN	no	no	no
				brain	brain edema	Ly	no	no	no
11	M		MIS 9, ARDS (DAD)	lungs	ARDS (DAD)	Mo, Ly	yes	no	yes
			myocarditis encephalitis	heart	myocarditis
			edema cerebri	brain	encephalitis, edema	PMN, Ly, Ma	no	no	no
			MOF 10, renal ATN	kidney	renal ATN	PMN	no	no	no
			centrilobular liver necrosis	liver	autolysis	PMN, Mo	no	no	yes
74	F	DM2	ARDS
		Hypertension	steatosis hepatis myocardial fibrosis	liver	hepatic centrilobular necrosis	Ly	no	no	no
			heart dilatation
			pneumonia	lungs	DAD, interstitial pneumonia	PMN, Ma	yes	no	yes
			renal ATN	kidney	renal ATN	PMN	yes	no	yes
			myocardial fibrosis	heart	myocarditis	PMN, Ly	no	no	no
65 6	M	Atherosclerosis	ARDS (DAD) pneumonia	lungs	DAD, pneumonia suppurativa,		no	yes	yes
		Hypertension	hematoma intracerebrale	brain	acute bleeding and brain edema	PMN, Ly	yes	no	yes
		Obesity	hematocephalus
			myocardial fibrosis	heart	myocardial fibrosis	PMN	no	no	no
75	M	Atherosclerosis	ARDS (DAD)
			interstitial pneumonia	lungs	pneumonia, DAD	PMN, Mo, Ly	no	no	yes
			myocardial fibrosis, heart dilatation and hypertrophy	heart	myocardial fibrosis	PMN, Ly	no	no	no
			renal ATN	kidney	renal ATN	PMN	no	no	no

¹ diabetes mellitus type 2; ² acute respiratory distress syndrome; ³ diffuse alveolar damage; ⁴ lymphocytes (Ly), plasma cells (Pl), macrophages (Ma), polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN), monocytes (Mo); ⁵ disseminated intravascular coagulation; ⁶ patient was supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); ⁷ acute tubular necrosis; ⁸ inflammatory bowel disease; ⁹ multisystem inflammatory syndrome; ¹⁰ multiple organ failure; * inflammatory cells that were the most pronounced.