Morphologically, immunohistochemically and PCR proven lymphocytic viral peri-, endo-, myocarditis in patients with fatal COVID-19

• Main Authors: Evgeniya Kogan (Author), Yuriy Berezovskiy (Author), Olga Blagova (Author), Anna Kukleva (Author), Lyudmila Semyonova (Author), Evgeniy Gretsov (Author), Atadzhan Ergeshov (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Despite a reported cardiac injury in patients with new coronavirus infection, the possibility and specifics of genuine viral myocarditis in COVID-19 remains not fully clear. Purpose To study the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the myocardium and the morphological properties of myocardi...