COVID-19-Associated cardiac pathology at the postmortem evaluation: a collaborative systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many postmortem studies address the cardiovascular effects of COVID-19 and provide valuable information, but are limited by their small sample size.

Objectives

The aim of this systematic review is to better understand the various aspects of the cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 by pooling data from a large number of autopsy studies.

Data sources

We searched the online databases Ovid EBM Reviews, Ovid Embase, Ovid Medline, Scopus, and Web of Science for concepts of autopsy or histopathology combined with COVID-19, published between database inception and February 2021. We also searched for unpublished manuscripts using the medRxiv services operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Study eligibility criteria

Articles were considered eligible fo

SUBMITTER: Almamlouk R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8941843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature