Histopathological examination of lung from infant with lethal COVID-19 with special attention on pneumocytes type II and the immune infiltrate: a case study
Our findings highlight the complexity of COVID-19 lung affection, involving ATII cell hyperplasia, interstitial mononuclear cell infiltration and macrophages increase. The findings provide an additional knowledge on the pathophysiology of COVID-19 in the lung and can serve as a basis for investigation of molecular mechanisms of this disease.
Authors
- Maya Gulubova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0615-6412)
- Julian Ananiev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4465-0908)
- Dimitar Chonov
- Vesselina Merhar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9394-5035)
- Mitko Mitev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1082-5383)
- Lilia Pekova
Institutions
- Trakia University (BG)
- Prof. Assen Zlatarov University (BG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Italian Journal of Pediatrics/Italian journal of pediatrics
- Published
- 2025-06-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-025-01984-y
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Science