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cord-282530-55lhjfm8	Carsana, Luca	Pulmonary post-mortem findings in a series of COVID-19 cases from northern Italy: a two-centre descriptive study	2020-06-08		.txt	text/plain	3429	160	41	[6] [7] [8] [9] We describe the lung histopathological findings from a large series of patients who died from COVID-19 in northern Italy, with the aim of reporting the main micro scopic pulmonary lesions associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe respiratory failure. To our knowledge, these data represent the first relevant provisional information regarding tissue damage specifically induced by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), besides the previously described diffuse alveolar damage, a feature that characterises interstitial pneumonia regardless of infectious agent. 3, 4, 11, 14 In two autopsy studies of patients who died from SARS (eight cases from Singapore 11 and 20 cases from Toronto), 3 the predominant pattern of lung injury was diffuse alveolar damage, including the exudative and proliferative phases. In a case report of a patient who died from COVID-19 in China, the histological findings in the lungs included desquamation of pneumocytes, diffuse alveolar damage, and oedema.	./cache/cord-282530-55lhjfm8.txt	./txt/cord-282530-55lhjfm8.txt