Histological findings in skeletal muscle of SARS-CoV2 infected patient

ABSTRACT

Autopsies represent medical procedures through which the causes of patients’ deaths are determined or, through tissue sampling and microscopic examination of slides in usual stains or special tests, one can offer the basis for understanding the physiopathological mechanisms that contribute to the patients’ death Histological findings of tissue samples from patients who have died of COVID-19 have been mainly orientated to lung, heart, liver, kidney damage with a small percent of them following other organs, but none has, to our knowledge, studied skeletal muscle.

KEYWORDS:

• Autopsy
• COVID-19
• skeletal muscle

Acknowledgments

The present study will be integrated in the original part of the PhD thesis of author PhD student Vlad Mageriu. This work was possible with the support of The Pathology Department of Colentina Clinical Hospital Bucharest Romania.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article.