Case report of a Japanese patient with chronic renal failure who developed SARS-CoV-2 in a hospital cluster during treatment for acute respiratory failure: An autopsy report

Yoshifumi Amari; Satoshi Morimoto; Takashi Teranishi; Mai Ohata; Atsushi Takeshita; Hiroshi Hirano; Hitoshi Kobayashi

doi:10.1002/ccr3.6024

Case report of a Japanese patient with chronic renal failure who developed SARS-CoV-2 in a hospital cluster during treatment for acute respiratory failure: An autopsy report

Clin Case Rep. 2022 Jul 11;10(7):e6024. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.6024. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Authors

Yoshifumi Amari¹, Satoshi Morimoto², Takashi Teranishi³, Mai Ohata⁴, Atsushi Takeshita⁴, Hiroshi Hirano⁵, Hitoshi Kobayashi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nephrology Moriguchi Keijinkai Hospital Osaka Japan.
² Department of Endocrinology and Hypertension Tokyo Women's Medical University Tokyo Japan.
³ Department of General Medicine Moriguchi Keijinkai Hospital Osaka Japan.
⁴ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Moriguchi Keijinkai Hospital Osaka Japan.
⁵ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Nozaki Tokushukai Hospital Osaka Japan.

Abstract

This article reports a clinical and histopathological perspective which noted not only COVID-19 pneumonia but also exacerbation of chronic renal failure potentially caused by thrombus in the kidney, possibly COVID-19-related lesions. The accumulation of autopsy cases will elucidate the pathogenesis of COVID-19 and aid in the development of effective therapeutics.

Keywords: COVID‐19; SARS‐CoV‐2; autopsy; chronic renal failure; diffuse alveolar damage; pathology.

Publication types

Case Reports