A series of autopsies conducted by the team of ASIP member, Dr. Richard Vander Heide, revealed surprising cardiac changes in COVID-19 patients. He recently was an invited speaker for the ASIP COVID-19 Webinar on the topic of Autopsy Insights into the Pathogenesis of COVID-19, where he had proposed the mechanism that the cardiac manifestations in sick COVID-19 patients are likely due to small microthrombi and/or stress on an already diseased heart from the pulmonary stress/diffuse alveolar damage and not due to primary myocarditis. See the transcript here. The team of LSU Health pathologists led by Dr. Vander Heide, an experienced cardiovascular pathologist, identified key pathological changes that shine light on COVID-19 pathogenesis. The team found that unlike the first SARS coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 was absent in the heart muscle cells. Occluding blood clots in the coronary arteries were also found to be missing.
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- ASIP Member Dr. James Musser featured for COVID-19 Research
James Musser, MD, spoke with The New York Times about how COVID-19’s genetic code plays a vital role in controlling the virus.
Since last March, a team of researchers led by Dr. James Musser, chair of the department of pathology and genomic medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital, have been sequencing the viral genomes drawn from patients — 20,000 genomes so far. This new study has found that every coronavirus variant of concern to researchers around the world has been circulating in Houston at a low level for at least six to eight weeks. Houston is the first U.S. city to find all of the variants, including those recently reported in California and New York and the ones found in Brazil, Britain and South Africa.
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