Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body -- and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says.
Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, spoke to Erin Burnett on OutFront Thursday night.Some Covid-19 patients are known to develop blood clotting issues, but the degree and the extent to which that occurs was described as"dramatic" by Rapkiewicz.In the early stages of the pandemic, bedside clinicians noticed a lot of blood clotting"in lines and various large vessels," she said.
Researchers hope to discover how these cells influence small vessel clotting in Covid-19, she said.Pathologists have been surprised by something they didn't find.During early stages of the pandemic, doctors thought the virus would provoke inflammation in the heart with myocarditis, she said.But autopsies have found a very low incidents of myocarditis, Rapkiewicz said.
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