Michigan State University

Patient 1: 71 year-old male
- Had undergone renal transplant
- Coronary artery disease and high blood pressure in the arteries
- Needed mechanical ventilation
- Died after 8 days
- In post-mortem, it was found that there was inflammation of the endothelial layers of the heart, lung, and small bowel
- Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, was present in the heart, lungs, and small bowel
- Build up of cells in small vessels of the lung


Patient 1

Varga, Z., Flammer, A. J., Steiger, P., Haberecker, M., Andermatt, R., Zinkernagel, A. S., ... & Moch, H. (2020). Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in COVID-19. The Lancet, 395(10234), 1417-1418. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30937-5

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