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ReviewPathologie (Heidelberg, Germany)2023

[Interdisciplinary ultrasound-guided, minimally invasive autopsy in COVID-19-deceased patients in the intensive care unit of a university hospital : A proof-of-concept study].

T Lahmer, K Stock, S Rasch, S Porubsky, S Jeske, C Schustetter, U Protzer, U Heemann, R Schmid, W Weichert and 2 more

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Review in Pathologie (Heidelberg, Germany), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. [Minimally invasive autopsies-Methods and limitations].Pathologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

T LahmerKlinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland.
K StockAbteilung für Nephrologie - Nierenheilkunde, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland.
S RaschKlinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland.
S PorubskyInstitut für allgemeine Pathologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Deutschland.
S JeskeInstitut für Virologie, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland.
C SchustetterInstitut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland, Trogerstr. 18, 81675.
U ProtzerInstitut für Virologie, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland.
U HeemannAbteilung für Nephrologie - Nierenheilkunde, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland.
R SchmidKlinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland.
W WeichertInstitut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland, Trogerstr. 18, 81675.
G WeirichInstitut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland, Trogerstr. 18, 81675.
J Slotta-HuspeninaInstitut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland, Trogerstr. 18, 81675. julia.slotta-huspenina@tum.de.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this feasibility study, we carried out in an interdisciplinary team standardised, ultrasound-guided, minimally invasive autopsy (US-MIA) directly at the bedside of patients who died of COVID-19 in the intensive care unit of the Rechts der Isar Hospital of the Technical University Munich (TUM). The aim of the study was to verify the feasibility, time efficiency and infection hygiene aspects of the process, as well as the quality of the tissue samples. Our results show that bedside US-MIA is suitable for obtaining tissue samples before the onset of postmortem autolysis, and that it can also be carried out quickly and safely. The potential of US-MIA, which has gained little recognition so far, deserves special attention in the context of postmortem diagnosis, research and quality assurance. In the future, these strengths of US-MIA could help to lead postmortem diagnosis into the modern age of pathological deep analytics ("omics").

Indexed as

COVID-19AutopsyHospitals, UniversityHumansIntensive Care UnitsUltrasonography, InterventionalMIAMinimally invasive tissue samplingMITSMultidisciplinaryPostmortem-biopsy

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PMID38051339
PMCPMC10739551

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