2020, Number 4
Experience in autopsies of deceased with COVID-19 in the Central Military Hospital ''Dr. Luis Díaz Soto''
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: The autopsy is a strength of the Cuban health system. Its implementation with the appropriate methodology to deceased confirmed to COVID-19 at the Central Military Hospital “Dr. Luis Díaz Soto”, allowed their more adequate study.Objective: To identify the demographic characteristics, concomitant diseases and morphological alterations found in the autopsies of deceased confirmed to COVID-19.
Methods: A descriptive study of the 10 partial autopsies performed on confirmed deaths of COVID-19 between March and June 2020 was carried out, according to the methodology used to carry out these autopsies in the process of coping with this disease.
Results: The male sex and the age group 70 - 79 years corresponded to 60% of the cases studied. Bacterial bronchopneumonia predominated in direct causes of death, as a complication of the process produced by COVID-19 and in relation to other basic causes. The deceased had between 3 to 6 associated comorbidities.
Conclusions: The age groups most affected were between 70 and 79 years old with equivalence in both sexes. Comorbidities contribute to worsening the prognosis of these deceased, with a predominance of arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus. The manifestations of the systemic inflammatory response present as complications in them. Mortality from COVID-19 as a cause of death affected less than half of the cases studied, with respiratory and cardiac expression due to the action of the virus.
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