Histopathologic Findings in the Explant Lungs of a Patient With COVID-19 Treated With Bilateral Orthotopic Lung Transplant

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Department of Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, The State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

Comment

Wei-Ren Luo et al. Transplantation. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;104(11):e329-e331.

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003412.

¹ Department of Pathology, Department of Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, The State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

No abstract available

Comment on

Pathological findings of COVID-19 associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Xu Z, Shi L, Wang Y, Zhang J, Huang L, Zhang C, Liu S, Zhao P, Liu H, Zhu L, Tai Y, Bai C, Gao T, Song J, Xia P, Dong J, Zhao J, Wang FS. Xu Z, et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 Apr;8(4):420-422. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30076-X. Epub 2020 Feb 18. Lancet Respir Med. 2020. PMID: 32085846 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

1. Xu Z, Shi L, Wang Y, et al. Pathological findings of COVID-19 associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Lancet Respir Med. 2020; 8:420–422. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30076-X - DOI
1. Luo W, Yu H, Guo J, et al. Clinical pathology of critical patient with novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19). Preprints. 20202020020407
1. Magro C, Mulvey JJ, Berlin D, et al. Complement associated microvascular injury and thrombosis in the pathogenesis of severe COVID-19 infection: a report of five cases. Transl Res. 2020; 220:1–13. doi:10.1016/j.trsl.2020.04.007 - DOI
1. Yan R, Zhang Y, Li Y, et al. Structural basis for the recognition of the SARS-CoV-2 by full-length human ACE2. Science. 2020; 367:1444–1448. doi:10.1126/science.abb2762 - DOI
1. Mehta P, McAuley DF, Brown M, et al. COVID-19: consider cytokine storm syndromes and immunosuppression. Lancet. 2020; 395:1033–1034. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30628-0 - DOI