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Covid-19 Myocarditis: Quantitative Analysis Of The Inflammatory Infiltrateand A Proposed Mechanism, Lacey Rogers, Sharon Fox, Richard Vander Heide

Medical Student Research Poster Symposium

COVID-19 has a significant effect upon the cardiovascular system. While a number of different cardiovascular histopathologies have been described at post-mortem examination, the incidence of typical viral myocarditis in COVID-19 positive patients appears very low. In this study, we further characterize and quantify the inflammatory cell infiltrate in a COVID-19 study cohort and compare the findings to both an age and disease matched control cohort of patients diagnosed with typical inflammatory myocarditis. All study and control cohorts had 1 or more of the comorbities most commonly associated with severe disease (hypertension, type II diabetes, obesity, or known cardiovascular disease). The …