What did the autopsies of the COVID-19 victims reveal?

Autopsies performed on people who have died from coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body, and tests have shown that it all has to do with blood clots. So states Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, head of the pathology department at NYU Langone Medical Center, reports CNN. Some patients with Covid-19 are known to develop blood clotting problems, but the extent and extent to which it occurs has been described as "dramatic" by Rapkiewicz. In the early stages of anemia, nurses noticed many blood clots "in the veins and not only," she said, adding that "we noticed that the blood clot was not only in the veins or large canals, but also in those of small ". According to her, "This is dramatic because we thought the biggest problems might be in the lungs, but we found blood clots in every organ of the body during the autopsy," she said. Autopsies also showed something unusual about large bone marrow cells. Researchers hope to find out how these cells affect the clotting of blood vessels or arteries. Pathologists were surprised by something they did not find. "During the early stages of the pandemic, doctors thought the virus would provoke inflammation in the heart with myocarditis," she said. But autopsies have found a very low incidence of myocarditis, Rapkieëicz said.