COVID-19-Associated cardiac pathology at the postmortem evaluation : a collaborative systematic review

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BACKGROUND: Many postmortem studies address the cardiovascular effects of COVID-19 and provide valuable information, but are limited by their small sample size.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this systematic review is to better understand the various aspects of the cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 by pooling data from a large number of autopsy studies.

DATA SOURCES: We searched the online databases Ovid EBM Reviews, Ovid Embase, Ovid Medline, Scopus, and Web of Science for concepts of autopsy or histopathology combined with COVID-19, published between database inception and February 2021. We also searched for unpublished manuscripts using the medRxiv services operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

STUDY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Articles were considered eligible for inclusion if they reported human postmortem cardiovascular findings among individuals with a confirmed SARS coronavirus type 2 (CoV-2) infection.

PARTICIPANTS: Confirmed COVID-19 patients with post-mortem cardiovascular findings.

INTERVENTIONS: None.

METHODS: Studies were individually assessed for risk of selection, detection, and reporting biases. The median prevalence of different autopsy findings with associated interquartile ranges (IQRs).

RESULTS: This review cohort contained 50 studies including 548 hearts. The median age of the deceased was 69 years. The most prevalent acute cardiovascular findings were myocardial necrosis (median: 100.0%; IQR, 20%-100%; number of studies = 9; number of patients = 64) and myocardial oedema (median: 55.5%; IQR, 19.5%-92.5%; number of studies = 4; number of patients = 46). The median reported prevalence of extensive, focal active, and multifocal myocarditis were all 0.0%. The most prevalent chronic changes were myocyte hypertrophy (median: 69.0%; IQR, 46.8%-92.1%) and fibrosis (median: 35.0%; IQR, 35.0%-90.5%). SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the myocardium with median prevalence of 60.8% (IQR 40.4-95.6%).

CONCLUSIONS: Our systematic review confirmed the high prevalence of acute and chronic cardiac pathologies in COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 cardiac tropism, as well as the low prevalence of myocarditis in COVID-19.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 28(2022), 8 vom: 10. Aug., Seite 1066-1075

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Almamlouk, Raghed [VerfasserIn]
Kashour, Tarek [VerfasserIn]
Obeidat, Sawsan [VerfasserIn]
Bois, Melanie C [VerfasserIn]
Maleszewski, Joseph J [VerfasserIn]
Omrani, Osama A [VerfasserIn]
Tleyjeh, Rana [VerfasserIn]
Berbari, Elie [VerfasserIn]
Chakhachiro, Zaher [VerfasserIn]
Zein-Sabatto, Bassel [VerfasserIn]
Gerberi, Dana [VerfasserIn]
Tleyjeh, Imad M [VerfasserIn]
Cardiac Autopsy in COVID-19 Study Group [VerfasserIn]
Paniz Mondolfi, Alberto E [VerfasserIn]
Finn, Aloke V [VerfasserIn]
Duarte-Neto, Amaro Nunes [VerfasserIn]
Rapkiewicz, Amy V [VerfasserIn]
Frustaci, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Keresztesi, Arthur-Atilla [VerfasserIn]
Hanley, Brian [VerfasserIn]
Märkl, Bruno [VerfasserIn]
Lardi, Christelle [VerfasserIn]
Bryce, Clare [VerfasserIn]
Lindner, Diana [VerfasserIn]
Aguiar, Diego [VerfasserIn]
Westermann, Dirk [VerfasserIn]
Stroberg, Edana [VerfasserIn]
Duval, Eric J [VerfasserIn]
Youd, Esther [VerfasserIn]
Bulfamante, Gaetano Pietro [VerfasserIn]
Salmon, Isabelle [VerfasserIn]
Auer, Johann [VerfasserIn]
Maleszewski, Joseph J [VerfasserIn]
Hirschbühl, Klaus [VerfasserIn]
Absil, Lara [VerfasserIn]
Barton, Lisa M [VerfasserIn]
Ferraz da Silva, Luiz Fernando [VerfasserIn]
Moore, Luiza [VerfasserIn]
Dolhnikoff, Marisa [VerfasserIn]
Lammens, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Bois, Melanie C [VerfasserIn]
Osborn, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Remmelink, Myriam [VerfasserIn]
Nascimento Saldiva, Paulo Hilario [VerfasserIn]
Jorens, Philippe G [VerfasserIn]
Craver, Randall [VerfasserIn]
Aparecida de Almeida Monteiro, Renata [VerfasserIn]
Scendoni, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Tadaki [VerfasserIn]
Mauad, Thais [VerfasserIn]
Fracasso, Tony [VerfasserIn]
Grimes, Zachary [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Cardiac pathology
Journal Article
Myocarditis
Postmortem
Review
SARS-CoV-2
Systematic Review
Systematic review

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Date Completed 26.07.2022

Date Revised 26.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cmi.2022.03.021

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM338698647