Volgograd Journal of Medical Research
Quarterly Journal of Science and Practice

UDK: 616-091.5

Pathological anatomy of coronavirus infection in modern conditions

Alexey Vladimirovich Smirnov, Aislu Ilnurovna Bisinbekova, Natalia Vladimirovna Grigorieva, Dmitry Yurievich Gurov, Lyudmila Ivanovna Alexandrova, Rudolf Pavlovich Samusev, Valery Semenovich Zamaraev

Волгоградский государственный медицинский университет, Волгоград, Россия

Abstract

A new coronavirus infection was initially associated with respiratory damage and the development of acute respiratory syndromes. But later it was proved that COVID-19 can be considered as a systemic inflammatory process with multiple organ lesions. This review is devoted to the analysis of available data on morphological changes of organs in COVID-19.

Keywords

coronavirus infection, interstitial pneumonia, extrapulmonary lesions

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