id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-345628-a4c46m2w Unudurthi, Sathya D. Cardiac inflammation in COVID-19: Lessons from heart failure 2020-09-21 .txt text/plain 7725 413 41 Autopsies of COVID-19 patients reveal an infiltration of inflammatory mononuclear cells in the myocardium, confirming the role of the immune system in mediating cardiovascular damage in response to COVID-19 infection and also suggesting potential causal mechanisms for the development of new cardiac pathologies and/or exacerbation of underlying CVDs in infected patients. Myocyte damage and lymphocytic myocarditis have also been independently confirmed by recent autopsies carried out on multiple COVID-19 patients from Seattle and Germany (Bradley et al., 2020; Wichmann et al., 2020) Recently, SARS-CoV-2 viral particles have been identified in cardiac macrophages, suggesting that these cells can be directly infected by the virus, potentially transmitting the disease systemically to multiple tissues (Tavazzi et al., 2020) . ./cache/cord-345628-a4c46m2w.txt ./txt/cord-345628-a4c46m2w.txt