Fulminant myocarditis: a comprehensive review from etiology to treatments and outcomes

W Hang, C Chen, JM Seubert, DW Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Fulminant myocarditis (FM) is characterized by a rapid progressive decline in cardiac
function and a high mortality rate. Since the first report of FM patients in the 1980s, several …

Organ manifestations of COVID-19: what have we learned so far (not only) from autopsies?

D Jonigk, C Werlein, T Acker, M Aepfelbacher… - Virchows Archiv, 2022 - Springer
The use of autopsies in medicine has been declining. The COVID-19 pandemic has
documented and rejuvenated the importance of autopsies as a tool of modern medicine. In …

Inflammation and vascular remodeling in COVID-19 hearts

C Werlein, M Ackermann, H Stark, HR Shah, A Tzankov… - Angiogenesis, 2023 - Springer
A wide range of cardiac symptoms have been observed in COVID-19 patients, often
significantly influencing the clinical outcome. While the pathophysiology of pulmonary …

Persistent viral infections and their role in heart disease

A Badrinath, S Bhatta, A Kloc - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Viral infections are the culprit of many diseases, including inflammation of the heart muscle,
known as myocarditis. Acute myocarditis cases have been described in scientific literature …

3D virtual histopathology of cardiac tissue from Covid-19 patients based on phase-contrast X-ray tomography

M Reichardt, PM Jensen, VA Dahl, AB Dahl… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
For the first time, we have used phase-contrast X-ray tomography to characterize the three-
dimensional (3d) structure of cardiac tissue from patients who succumbed to Covid-19. By …

The role of vasculature and angiogenesis in respiratory diseases

M Ackermann, C Werlein, E Plucinski, S Leypold… - Angiogenesis, 2024 - Springer
In European countries, nearly 10% of all hospital admissions are related to respiratory
diseases, mainly chronic life-threatening diseases such as COPD, pulmonary hypertension …

Intussusceptive angiogenesis in Covid-19: hypothesis on the significance and focus on the possible role of FGF2

S Meini, T Giani, C Tascini - Molecular biology reports, 2020 - Springer
The interest on the role of angiogenesis in the pathogenesis and progression of human
interstitial lung diseases is growing, with conventional sprouting (SA) and non-sprouting …

[HTML][HTML] Severe parvovirus B19 infections in the immunocompetent population

M Giovanetti, F Branda, F Scarpa, M Ciccozzi… - …, 2024 - eurosurveillance.org
To the editor: We read with great interest the report by Nordholm et al. documenting the
significant increase in severe parvovirus B19 (PVB19) infections among pregnant women …

[HTML][HTML] Pulmonary and Systemic Pathology in COVID-19: Holistic Pathological Analyses

D Jonigk, C Werlein, PD Lee, HU Kauczor… - Deutsches Ärzteblatt …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is the third worldwide coronavirus-associated disease
outbreak in the past 20 years. Lung involvement, with acute respiratory distress syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Reassessing the Risk of Severe Parvovirus B19 Infection in the Immunocompetent Population: A Call for Vigilance in the Wake of Resurgence

G Ceccarelli, F Branda, A Ciccozzi, C Romano… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Despite Parvovirus B19 (B19V) generally causing mild or asymptomatic infections, and only
certain high-risk groups such as hematological or immunocompromised patients and …