• Arch Iran Med · May 2023

    Cardio-Pulmonary Histopathology with Clinical Correlations of Deceased Patients with COVID-19: A Case Series in Tehran, Iran.

    • Saeed Soleiman-Meigooni, Ramin Yaghmayee, Shadi Mohammadi, Mousa Ahmadi, Mehdi Sakhabakhsh, Ramin Hamidi-Farahani, Ebrahim Hazrati, Seyed Mohammad Jazayeri, Mahtab Fotoohi, Akram Motemaveleh, Vahid Doulatabadi-Farahani, Farhad Shahmohamadi, Mohammad Hassan Kazemi-Galougahi, Ali Asgari, Mohammad Aminianfar, Mohammad Darvishi, Mojgan Mohajeri-Iravani, and Omid Gholizadeh.
    • Infectious Diseases Research Center, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
    • Arch Iran Med. 2023 May 1; 26 (5): 252260252-260.

    BackgroundSARS-CoV-2 may affect vital organs. The present study investigated the histopathology of pulmonary and cardiac tissues with clinical correlation in deceased patients with COVID-19.MethodsWe obtained pulmonary and cardiac tissues from 30 deceased patients with COVID-19 in Tehran, Iran, from January to May 2021. Sampling was performed through a percutaneous needle biopsy. After slide preparation, two expert pathologists studied them. We assessed the correlation between clinical and pathological data by Fisher's exact test.ResultsThe mean age of the patients was 73.8±13.4 years, and the male-to-female ratio was 23/7. The most common underlying disease was hypertension (HTN) in 25 patients (83%). Fifty-five tissue samples were achieved, including 28 pulmonary and 27 cardiac samples. Our results showed that all patients (100%) developed diffuse alveolar damage (DAD), and 26 (93%) developed hyaline membrane formation. The most common phase of DAD was the exudative-proliferative phase in 16 (57.1%). Three cardiac samples (11%) revealed myocarditis, and seven (26%) showed cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. In univariate analysis using Fischer's exact test, myocarditis had significant relationships with C-reactive protein (CRP) levels higher than 80 mg/dL (P=0.008) and elevated cardiac troponin levels higher than two-fold (P=0.01).ConclusionCOVID-19 can affect the major vital organs. However, only myocarditis had a significant relationship with the circulating levels of inflammatory factors.© 2023 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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