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To: TobagoJack who wrote (160493)	7/23/2020 7:38:44 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	1 Recommendation Recommended By zamboz Respond to of 217887

Time to get Jack a strength coach Such problems. ====================== Doctors Shocked by Heart Damage in COVID-19 Patients – Unique Pattern of Cell Death Revealed by Autopsies TOPICS: Cardiology COVID-19 Infectious Diseases Louisiana State University Public Health By LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER JULY 21, 2020 A series of autopsies conducted by LSU Health New Orleans pathologists shows the damage to the hearts of COVID-19 patients is not the expected typical inflammation of the heart muscle associated with myocarditis, but rather a unique pattern of cell death in scattered individual heart muscle cells. They report the findings of a detailed study of hearts from 22 deaths confirmed due to COVID-19 in a Research Letter published in Circulation. “We identified key gross and microscopic changes that challenge the notion that typical myocarditis is present in severe SARS-CoV-2 infection,” says Richard Vander Heide, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Director of Pathology Research at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. “While the mechanism of cardiac injury in COVID-19 is unknown, we propose several theories that bear further investigation that will lead to greater understanding and potential treatment interventions.” The team of LSU Health pathologists led by Dr. Vander Heide, an experienced cardiovascular pathologist, also found that unlike the first SARS coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 was not present in heart muscle cells. Nor were there occluding blood clots in the coronary arteries. Their previously reported results revealed diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) – damage to the small airspaces of the lung where gas exchange occurs – along with blood clots and bleeding in the small blood vessels and capillaries of the lung, were the major contributors to death. “These findings, along with severely enlarged right ventricles, may indicate extreme stress on the heart secondary to acute pulmonary disease,” adds Sharon Fox, MD, PhD, Associate Director of Research and Development in the Department of Pathology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. The autopsies, believed to be some of the first reported from the US, were conducted on 22 patients who died of COVID-19 at University Medical Center in New Orleans. The majority were African American. The ten male and twelve female patients ranged in age from 44-79. Although there were other underlying conditions, the majority had high blood pressure, half had insulin-treated type 2 diabetes, and about 41% had obesity. The LSU Health New Orleans pathologists, as have others, also found viral infection of some of the cells in the lining of the smaller blood vessels (endothelium). Although at low levels, it may be enough to cause dysfunction leading to individual cell death. The effects of the so-called “cytokine storm” (severe overreaction of the immune system cells fighting the infection) associated with COVID may also play a role. “Given that inflammatory cells can pass through the heart without being present in the tissue proper, a role for cytokine-induced endothelial damage cannot be ruled out,” says Dr. Vander Heide. ### Reference: “Unexpected Features of Cardiac Pathology in COVID-19 Infection” by Sharon E. Fox, Guang Li, Aibek Akmatbekov, Jack L. Harbert, Fernanda S. Lameira, J. Quincy Brown and Richard S. Vander Heide, 21 July 2020, Circulation. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.049465 In addition to Drs. Vander Heide and Fox, the LSU Health New Orleans team included Pathology residents Aibek Akmatbekov, MD; Fernanda S. Lameira, MD; and Jack L. Harbert, MD. Guang Li, and J. Quincy Brown from Tulane, also participated.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (160493)	7/23/2020 10:32:24 PM
From: carranza2	4 Recommendations Recommended By Gemlaoshi Reilly Diefenbach XX_XX zamboz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217887

“...physically lugging it...” Reminds me of a couple of stories. First: My dad taking a briefcase-full of Mexican Centenarios to a bank to pay off a construction loan for our new swanky house. By foot. In the middle of a not-yet-entirely-civilized Mexican city. Well, the weight of the coins started to destroy the briefcase. So he had to hug it to keep the coins from spilling all over the street. Eye-witnesses must've really thought he was nuts, penguin-walking around a Mexican city while hugging a briefcase, which was actually full of beautiful gold coins. Good grief, if the briefcase had given way... Second: My great-grandfather, like yours, was quite a character. Through hook and crook, he became an arms dealer during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He resided in the Big Bend of Texas, smack dab on the border. As close as you can be. He’d sell weapons and ammo to anyone, revolutionary or federal, who could pay in gold or cattle. A minor historical figure, but I feel that I know him because I’ve done somewhat of a study of him. He loved gold. My grandfather, who was a green youth at the time, told wonderful stories about his father assigning to him the job of going into wild-ass Mexico in the early 1900s to collect gold (not cows) in payment of arms and ammo. I’m not sure how true the stories were, but they fired up my imagination. And I don't care, true or not, they’re real to me. Gold, the common thread. Oh, and cows. And a wonderful musical interlude to end the day. With translation. youtube.com