Postmortem Examination of Patients With COVID-19

Tina Schaller; Klaus Hirschbühl; Katrin Burkhardt; Georg Braun; Martin Trepel; Bruno Märkl; Rainer Claus

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8907

Postmortem Examination of Patients With COVID-19

JAMA. 2020 Jun 23;323(24):2518-2520. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.8907.

Authors

Tina Schaller¹, Klaus Hirschbühl², Katrin Burkhardt³, Georg Braun⁴, Martin Trepel², Bruno Märkl¹, Rainer Claus²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, University Medical Center Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
² Department of Hematology and Clinical Oncology, University Medical Center Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
³ Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, University Medical Center Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, University Medical Center Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

Abstract

This case series describes autopsy findings in 10 patients with proven severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection who died at a university medical center in Germany.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Autopsy*
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / pathology*
Female
Humans
Liver / pathology
Lung / pathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardium / pathology
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / pathology*
Respiratory System / virology*
SARS-CoV-2