TY - JOUR AU - Balaky, Salah Tofik Jalal AU - Zaki Abdullah, Sahar Mohammed AU - Alexander, Markov AU - Maashi, Marwah Suliman AU - Alkaim, Ayad F. AU - shahriyari, Sara AU - Tabari, Fariba AU - Kazemi, Elham PY - 2020/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A comprehensive review of histopathological findings of infections induced by COVID-19 JF - Cellular and Molecular Biology JA - Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) VL - 66 IS - 7 SE - Reviews DO - 10.14715/cmb/2020.66.7.22 UR - https://www.cellmolbiol.org/index.php/CMB/article/view/3789 SP - 143-151 AB - <p>The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-Coronavirus (CoV2) virus, first identified in Wuhan, China, caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which soon became a global pandemic, as labelled by the World Health Organization (WHO). The transmission method of the infection is primarily through droplets of various sizes. The SARS-CoV2 virus leads to a severe respiratory illness which in the first place causes the simulation of the acute respiratory syndrome. In order to diagnose of COVID-19 efficiently, samples with infection probability need to be examined through histopathological methods. Survival chances of the infected can remarkably increase if the virus is diagnosed timely by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) or computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest. One of the destructive effects of COVID-19 is the formation of ground-glass opacity (GGO) in the lungs which might be regarded to be equivalent to high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). COVID-19 acts very similarly to SARS and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) which can be inactivated by the chemical compounds of ethanol and sodium hypochlorite. Epidemiologic characteristics of COVID-19 have been indicated by numerous studies; however, there is still a lack of details of pathologic changes in the lung. The present comprehensive review is an attempt to assess and cover the current state of knowledge on COVID-19 disease based on the histopathologic studies conducted before May 2020.</p> ER -