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. 2022 Feb 9;9:778489. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.778489

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Postmortem findings in the patients of the second wave (green: finding present, red: finding absent. Concerning micro- and macrothrombi, hemorrhages, and infarcts; the following colors to specify the anatomic localization are used: heart and/or major vessels = violet, lung = blue, brain/intracranial = yellow, liver/digestive tract = brown, kidney = orange). The patients are ordered from left to right in a crescent pattern based on the number of days between diagnosis of COVID-19 through nasopharyngeal swab and death. DAD, diffuse alveolar damage; NA, not available.