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Showing Original Post only (View all)It's not the flu. You may not want to read this, but you need to. [View all]
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Coronavirus autopsies: A story of 38 brains, 87 lungs and 42 hearts
What weve learned from the dead that could help the living
When pathologist Amy Rapkiewicz began the grim process of opening up the coronavirus dead to learn how their bodies went awry, she found damage to the lungs, kidneys and liver consistent with what doctors had reported for months.
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Autopsies have long been a source of breakthroughs in understanding new diseases, from HIV/AIDS and Ebola to Lassa fever and the medical community is counting on them to do the same for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. With a vaccine probably many months away in even the most optimistic scenarios, autopsies are becoming a critical source of information for research into possible treatments.
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Microclots in lungs
One of the first American investigations to be made public, on April 10, was out of New Orleans. The patient was a 44-year-old man who had been treated at LSU Health. Richard Vander Heide remembers cutting the lung and discovering what were probably hundreds or thousands of microclots.
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Heart cells
The next organ studied up close was the heart. One of the most frightening early reports about the coronavirus from China was that a significant percentage of hospitalized patients up to 20 to 30 percent appeared to have myocarditis that could lead to sudden death. The condition involves the thickening of the muscle of the heart so that it can no longer pump efficiently.
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He said a couple of patients he performed autopsies on had gone into cardiac arrest in the hospital, but when he examined them, the primary damage was in the lungs not the heart.
Brain grid
If you have one blood clot in the brain, we see that all the time. But what were seeing is, some patients are having multiple strokes in blood vessels that are in two or even three different territories, Fowkes said.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/01/coronavirus-autopsies-findings/
What weve learned from the dead that could help the living
When pathologist Amy Rapkiewicz began the grim process of opening up the coronavirus dead to learn how their bodies went awry, she found damage to the lungs, kidneys and liver consistent with what doctors had reported for months.
... snip
Autopsies have long been a source of breakthroughs in understanding new diseases, from HIV/AIDS and Ebola to Lassa fever and the medical community is counting on them to do the same for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. With a vaccine probably many months away in even the most optimistic scenarios, autopsies are becoming a critical source of information for research into possible treatments.
... snip
Microclots in lungs
One of the first American investigations to be made public, on April 10, was out of New Orleans. The patient was a 44-year-old man who had been treated at LSU Health. Richard Vander Heide remembers cutting the lung and discovering what were probably hundreds or thousands of microclots.
... snip
Heart cells
The next organ studied up close was the heart. One of the most frightening early reports about the coronavirus from China was that a significant percentage of hospitalized patients up to 20 to 30 percent appeared to have myocarditis that could lead to sudden death. The condition involves the thickening of the muscle of the heart so that it can no longer pump efficiently.
... snip
He said a couple of patients he performed autopsies on had gone into cardiac arrest in the hospital, but when he examined them, the primary damage was in the lungs not the heart.
Brain grid
If you have one blood clot in the brain, we see that all the time. But what were seeing is, some patients are having multiple strokes in blood vessels that are in two or even three different territories, Fowkes said.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/01/coronavirus-autopsies-findings/
The article is worth the click.
***Link not behind a paywall thanks to Niagara in post #15: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/coronavirus-autopsies-a-story-of-38-brains-87-lungs-and-42-hearts/ar-BB16dALn
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This is a superb article, full of interesting facts. Definitely worth reading. n/t
CaliforniaPeggy
Jul 2020
#1
Dayum! I'm sure glad I'm masking and distancing and sanitizing and hand-washing! I don't want
abqtommy
Jul 2020
#4
we wash our produce with soap and hot water and wipe down all containers with wipes
yellowdogintexas
Jul 2020
#27
are there any long term effects for asymptomatics or those with mild symptoms?
AlexSFCA
Jul 2020
#10
So you can get shingles and then get the immunization and prevent another episode?
captain queeg
Jul 2020
#41
We have known for decades the connection between chicken pox and shingles.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Jul 2020
#35
This is some nasty stuff. I'm going to keep doing what I've done since early March,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jul 2020
#14
It is this macro-analysis and new micro findings about COVID 19 that make this a novel coronavirus
lambchopp59
Jul 2020
#31