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	Autopsy Findings in Covid-19 in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital -__ampersandsignnbsp;Case Series&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>CS</surname><given-names>Sofiah</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>K</surname><given-names>Swaminathan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>J</surname><given-names>Merla</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>K</surname><given-names>Shantaram</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>20</day><month>11</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>2)</volume><issue/><fpage>110</fpage><lpage>114</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>&#13;
	Introduction: Post-mortem studies provide important information for understanding the new disease pathogenesis and clinical outcomes. Methods: Post-mortem examinations were performed according to WHO guidelines brought dead at tertiary care hospital, Tamilnadu, India. Tissues from the lung, heart, liver, kidney, spleen, and brain were examined. Results: Lung findings revealed early-stage DAD in 6 out of 10 cases and late-stage DAD in 4 cases, atypical pneumocytes and bronchopneumonia also noted. There is no evidence of myocarditis, hepatitis or encephalitis. Microvascular injury and thrombosis were also detected. Conclusion: The SARS-CoV-2 infection causes multisystem disease and significant pathological changes seen in most organs in patients with and without comorbidities irrespective of age.&#13;
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</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Autopsy</kwd><kwd> COVID-19</kwd><kwd> SARS–CoV-2</kwd><kwd> Comorbidities</kwd><kwd> Pathology</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
