Autopsies show brain damage in COVID-19 patientsA study yesterday in The Lancet presents the clinical findings of autopsies conducted on six German patients (four men and two women, aged 58 to 82 years) who died from COVID-19 in April.
All six had evidence of extensive brain pathologies at the time of death.Each patient had severe viral pneumonia caused by COVID-19 and required mechanical intubation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.For the three patients over 65, the cause of death was determined to be cardiorespiratory failure.
The three patients younger than 65 died of either f massive intracranial hemorrhage or pulmonary embolism, consistent with COVID-19–associated coagulopathy, the authors said.Both groups showed lymphocytic