Pathology of COVID-19: Atlas

OV Zayratyants

Pathology of COVID-19: Atlas

Review

Moscow: Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management, Moscow Healthcare Department; 2020.

Authors

MV Samsonova¹, LM Mikhaleva², AL Chernyaev³, OD Mishnev⁴, NM Krupnov⁵, DV Kalinin⁶

Editor

OV Zayratyants⁷

Affiliations

¹ Head of the Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy at the Pulmonology Research Institute, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia
² Professor, Director of the Research Institute of Human Morphology, Head of the Pathology Department at the City Clinical Hospital No. 31 of Moscow Healthcare Department, Vice President of the Russian Society of Pathologists
³ Professor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Fundamental Pulmonology at the Pulmonology Research Institute, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia, member of the Presidium of the Russian Society of Pathologists
⁴ Professor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Chief Pathologist of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District, Head of the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the General Medicine Department at N. I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Vice President of the Russian Society of Pathologists
⁵ Chief Pathologist of the Ministry of Health of the Ryazan Region, Head of the D.I. Mastbaum Bureau of Forensic Medicine, Honored Worker of Health Care of the Russian Federation, member of the Presidium of the Russian Society of Pathologists
⁶ Head of the Pathology Departments at the A.V. Vishnevsky Scientific Research Surgery Center of the Ministry of Health of Russia and I.V. Davydovsky City Clinical Hospital of Moscow Healthcare Department
⁷ Professor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Chief Pathologist at the Moscow Healthcare Department, Chief Expert Pathologist at the Federal Public Health Supervisory Agency Roszdravnadzor for the Central Federal District, Head of the Department of Pathological Anatomy at A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Vice President of the Russian Society of Pathologists, Chairman of the Moscow Society of Pathologists

PMID: 33760431
Bookshelf ID: NBK568664

Excerpt

This Atlas is the result of the autopsies performed by the Moscow Pathology Service for the posthumous diagnosis of presentations and complications of COVID-19 in 2000 cases, the largest number of autopsies of COVID-19 cases in the world. This was accomplished because in Moscow an autopsy is performed in 100 % of fatal cases with suspected COVID-19 with a detailed clinical and morphological analysis. The results of the studies formed the basis of a new methodology that expands upon WHO Guidelines for Certification and Classification (Coding) of COVID-19 as Cause of Death. Transferring this methodology into practice allowed not only to improve reporting of COVID-19-related deaths, but also had a significant impact on the management strategies of COVID-19 patients. A contribution to the theory of pathology is the introduction of the concept of clinical and morphological “masks” of COVID-19. Atlas presents a wide range of signs and complications of COVID-19, which outline ways for further study of their pathogenesis and morphogenesis, improvement of diagnostics and treatment of patients, and a detailed classification of the causes of death directly or indirectly associated with COVID-19.

Atlas is intended for pathologists, forensic experts, as well as doctors of all clinical specialties and students in medical schools, including those in advanced training programs of continuing medical education.

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