{"title":"免疫力低下和免疫力正常患者的长COVID：临床、形态学和病毒学描述。","authors":"Fátima Ramalhosa, Francesca Lunardi, Nicol Bernardinello, Silvia Gori, Federica Pezzuto, Veronica Tauro, Claudia Del Vecchio, Chiara Giraudo, Elisabetta Balestro, Fiorella Calabrese","doi":"10.5858/arpa.2024-0043-OA","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context.—: </strong>Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) primarily affects the lung and can lead to chronic/post-COVID syndrome. Some insights about late pulmonary changes occurring in patients recovering from COVID have been published, but the evidence of detailed pathologic changes coming from follow-up care patients with long COVID is limited.</p><p><strong>Objective.—: </strong>To evaluate tissue morphologic and viral features in transbronchial biopsies of long COVID patients (immunocompetent and immunocompromised).</p><p><strong>Design.—: </strong>This retrospective observational study included 18 patients (9 immunocompetent and 9 immunocompromised) who were consecutively referred to outpatient clinic for post-COVID pneumonia, undergoing transbronchial biopsy. Several histologic changes were analyzed by computer-assisted morphometric analysis. As organizing pneumonia (OP) was consistently detected, fibrosis and inflammation were also evaluated in transbronchial biopsies from 28 control patients with histologic confirmation of OP. Tissue SARS-CoV-2 and the subgenomic transcripts were investigated. Morphologic findings were correlated with clinical and radiologic data.</p><p><strong>Results.—: </strong>Long COVID patients showed lower inflammation than controls (P < .001) despite a similar fibrotic extension. When considering separately the 2 long COVID groups, the same inflammatory infiltrate extension was found, whereas a higher fibrotic remodeling characterized the immunocompetent subgroup (P = .05). Molecular investigation showed that SARS-CoV-2 was present in tissue samples obtained from 3 long COVID patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions.—: </strong>Long COVID patients showed a peculiar OP pattern, with more vascular and fibrotic changes. SARS-CoV-2 RNA, even in replicative status, can be detected in lung biopsies of both immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. This pilot study is a forerunner of more in-depth lung tissue investigations to gain a better understanding of long COVID pathobiology.</p>","PeriodicalId":93883,"journal":{"name":"Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Long COVID in Immunocompromised and Immunocompetent Patients: A Clinical, Morphologic, and Virologic Portrait.\",\"authors\":\"Fátima Ramalhosa, Francesca Lunardi, Nicol Bernardinello, Silvia Gori, Federica Pezzuto, Veronica Tauro, Claudia Del Vecchio, Chiara Giraudo, Elisabetta Balestro, Fiorella Calabrese\",\"doi\":\"10.5858/arpa.2024-0043-OA\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<p><strong>Context.—: </strong>Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) primarily affects the lung and can lead to chronic/post-COVID syndrome. 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Long COVID in Immunocompromised and Immunocompetent Patients: A Clinical, Morphologic, and Virologic Portrait.
Context.—: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) primarily affects the lung and can lead to chronic/post-COVID syndrome. Some insights about late pulmonary changes occurring in patients recovering from COVID have been published, but the evidence of detailed pathologic changes coming from follow-up care patients with long COVID is limited.
Objective.—: To evaluate tissue morphologic and viral features in transbronchial biopsies of long COVID patients (immunocompetent and immunocompromised).
Design.—: This retrospective observational study included 18 patients (9 immunocompetent and 9 immunocompromised) who were consecutively referred to outpatient clinic for post-COVID pneumonia, undergoing transbronchial biopsy. Several histologic changes were analyzed by computer-assisted morphometric analysis. As organizing pneumonia (OP) was consistently detected, fibrosis and inflammation were also evaluated in transbronchial biopsies from 28 control patients with histologic confirmation of OP. Tissue SARS-CoV-2 and the subgenomic transcripts were investigated. Morphologic findings were correlated with clinical and radiologic data.
Results.—: Long COVID patients showed lower inflammation than controls (P < .001) despite a similar fibrotic extension. When considering separately the 2 long COVID groups, the same inflammatory infiltrate extension was found, whereas a higher fibrotic remodeling characterized the immunocompetent subgroup (P = .05). Molecular investigation showed that SARS-CoV-2 was present in tissue samples obtained from 3 long COVID patients.
Conclusions.—: Long COVID patients showed a peculiar OP pattern, with more vascular and fibrotic changes. SARS-CoV-2 RNA, even in replicative status, can be detected in lung biopsies of both immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. This pilot study is a forerunner of more in-depth lung tissue investigations to gain a better understanding of long COVID pathobiology.
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