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Pulmonary Vascular Endothelialitis, Thrombosis, and Angiogenesis in Covid-19

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Submitted by

Emily Farkas

Source

Source Name: The New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2015432?articleTools=true

Author(s)

Ackermann, M et al.

Autopsy examination of lungs from patients who died from SARS-CoV-2 infection, with comparison to the morphologic & molecular features of lungs from patients who died from ARDS secondary to influenza A (H1N1) infection and from uninfected controls. Although a small series, the finding of intussusceptive angiogenesis distinguished the pulmonary pathobiology of Covid-19 from that of equally severe influenza virus infection.