Yuichiro Hirata, Yohsuke Makino, Shun Iida, Harutaka Katano, Sayaka Nagasawa, Hirofumi Rokutan, Munetoshi Hinata, Akiko Iwasaki, Yoichi Yasunaga, Hiroyuki Abe, Masako Ikemura, Ayumi Motomura, Kei Kira, Susumu Kobayashi, Shigeki Tsuneya, Suguru Torimitsu, Isao Yamamoto, Kimiko Nakagawa, Iwao Hasegawa, Shinji Akitomi, Daisuke Yajima, Tetsuo Ushiku, Hisako Saitoh, Tadaki Suzuki, Hirotaro Iwase
Minimally invasive autopsy (MIA) is an alternative to full autopsy for collection of tissue samples from patient's bodies, using an instrument such as a biopsy needle. MIA has been conducted in many cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and contributed to elucidation of the pathogenesis of the disease. However, most of these cases were hospital deaths, and there are few reports on the application of MIA in out-of-hospital deaths with varying extent of postmortem changes. In this study, MIA and autopsy were both performed in 15 COVID-19 cases 2-30 days after death, including 11 out-of-hospital deaths...
June 30, 2023: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases