Paul J Boor, Mukund Srinivasan, Heather L Stevenson, Bin Gong, Emmanuel Nyong, Jianli Dong, Vsevolod Popov, Michael Sherman, Nathen Bopp, Michelle M Felicella, Beihong Zhao, Maximilian Buja, Judith F Aronson
The ongoing epidemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is characterized by a variety of pathologic processes within the syndrome of COVID-19. Usually beginning as an upper respiratory infection with potential progression to a pneumonitis, many cases of COVID-19 that show minimal signs or symptoms initially may develop adverse systemic sequelae later, such as widespread thrombo-embolic phenomena, systemic inflammatory disorders (especially in children), or vasculitis. Here, we present a patient who suffered a sudden cardiac death following persistent SARS-CoV-2 viral positivity for four-and-one-half months after a mild clinical viral course...
July 5, 2023: Cardiovascular Pathology: the Official Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology