Relation

Patient 1

Patient 1: 71 year-old male

  • Had undergone renal transplant
  • Coronary artery disease and high blood pressure in the arteries
  • Needed mechanical ventilation
  • Died after 8 days
  • In post-mortem, it was found that there was inflammation of the endothelial layers of the heart, lung, and small bowel
  • Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, was present in the heart, lungs, and small bowel
  • Build up of cells in small vessels of the lung

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Updated 2020-07-20

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Biomedical Sciences