What does Covid-19 do to the body? Pathology: It's dramatic, here's what we found from the autopsies of the victims!
2020-07-10 15:42:00
Dritare.net
Source: CNN
Autopsies of people who died of coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body and one of the biggest discoveries has to do with blood clots.
Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, chairwoman of the Department of Pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, says some patients are known to have blood clotting, but the rate is rising even more, as dramatic for her. In the early stages of pandemics, clotting was observed in large veins.
But Dr. Rapkiewicz says the coagulation was not only in the large veins, but also in the small ones.
"And that was dramatic, because we were expecting it in the lungs alone, but we found it in almost every organ, after the autopsy, " she said, according to dritare.net. bone marrow. Usually they do not circulate outside the bones and lungs, Rapkiewicz said.
"We found them in the heart, kidneys, liver and other organs. Especially in the heart, megakaryocytes produce platelets that are involved in blood clotting." , said the doctor.
According to her, the researchers hope to find out how these cells affect blood clotting in small veins. During the early stages of pandemic, doctors thought the virus would provoke inflammation in the heart with myocardium. But autopsies have found low myocardial infarction./KC/dritare.net
