An Immuno-Cardiac Model for Macrophage-Mediated Inflammation in COVID-19 Hearts
Abstract
While respiratory failure is a frequent and clinically significant outcome of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), cardiac complications are a common feature in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and are associated with worse patient outcomes. The cause of cardiac injury in COVID-19 patients is not yet known. Case reports of COVID-19 autopsy heart samples have demonstrated abnormal inflammatory infiltration of macrophages in heart tissues.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jun 25, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1161/circresaha.121.319060
Entities
People
- Alain Borczuk
- Benjamin E. Nilsson-payant
- Benjamin R tenOever
- Chanel Richardson
- David D Ho
- David Redmond
- Fabrice Jaffré
- Jean K Lim
- Jenny Xiang
- Jiajun Zhu
- Joshua A. Acklin
- Liuliu Yang
- Pengfei Wang
- Robert E. Schwartz
- Sean Houghton
- Shuibing Chen
- Skyler Uhl
- Todd Evans
- Tuo Zhang
- Vasuretha Chandar
- Yaoxing Huang
- Yaron Bram
- Yuling Han
- Zhengming Chen
Organizations
- American Heart Association
- Columbia University
- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Gates Foundation
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- National Cancer Institute
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Weill Cornell Medicine