(Combating New Coronary Pneumonia) Eleven patients with New Coronary Pneumonia have completed autopsy to provide clinical guidance
China News Service, Beijing, February 29 (Li Jingze) At a press conference on the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council of China held on February 29, Wang Guiqiang, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, said that 11 cases of new coronary pneumonia have died. The patient completed the anatomy of the corpse and provided clinical guidance.
Wang Guiqiang said that the new crown virus infection is a new infectious disease. Its pathogenesis, pathological characteristics, and histological damage are not clear, and pathological anatomy is very important to answer these questions. According to the preliminary results of the anatomy of 11 cases, "the formation of sputum plugs, lung lesions, and blood clots can be seen in general, which has certain guiding value for our clinical practice."
Wang Guiqiang pointed out that pathological anatomy has a lot of work to do from gross specimens to histology, to molecular pathology, and etiology. Now pathologists and clinical experts are discussing the anatomy results together. The pure pathological results are only seen from the pathology. It is necessary to make a comprehensive judgment based on the clinical and patient's previous disease conditions, so as to determine whether the cause of death of the patient is neocoronavirus infection, other basic diseases, or inflammatory factor storms. These data will come out soon and provide important reference for clinical treatment decisions.
Since Liu Liang, a professor of jurisprudence at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, led the team to carry out the pathological anatomy of the first death case of new coronary pneumonia on February 16, as of February 25, domestic experts have completed the pathological anatomy of 11 death cases of new coronary pneumonia. . Among them, Huazhong University of Science and Technology team completed 9 cases, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Xi Xiuwu and Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine completed 2 cases.
It is understood that the importance of autopsy in controlling the spread of epidemics was confirmed by the SARS outbreak in 2003. At that time, domestic experts generally considered chlamydia as its pathogen. It was not until the pathologist of the First Military Medical University Professor Ding Yanqing dissected the SARS dead that he received strong evidence to support the "atypical virus, not chlamydia" infection proposed by the Guangdong expert group. The conclusion was that the battle against SARS was brought to a new stage. (Finish)