Autopsy Study Finds Most COVID-19 Patients Have Macrophages in Myocardium: More studies will be needed to understand what the white blood cells are doing and whether they pose long-term risk

Title:

Autopsy Study Finds Most COVID-19 Patients Have Macrophages in Myocardium

 

Author:

L.A. McKeown

 

Published:

tctMD, 2 October 2020

https://www.tctmd.com/news/autopsy-study-finds-most-covid-19-patients-have-macrophages-myocardium

 

From the article:

Findings from a small autopsy study shed new light on cardiac histopathology in COVID-19 patients, showing high rates of macrophage infiltration in cardiac tissue, but a small percentage of true myocarditis on rigorous histopathologic examination.