School of Medicine

Department of Pathology

Fox SE, Akmatbekov A, Harbert JL, Li G, Brown JQ, Vander Heide RS. Pulmonary and cardiac pathology in African American patients with COVID-19: an autopsy series from New Orleans. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 8(7): 681-686. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30243-5 

Frequently cited pre-print: Fox SE, Akmatbekov A, Harbert JL, Li G, Brown   JQ, Vander Heide RS. Pulmonary and Cardiac Pathology in Covid-19: The First Autopsy Series from New Orleans. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.06.20050575v1  doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.06.20050575 

Fox SE, Li G, Akmatbekov A, Harbert JL, Lameira FS, Brown JQ, Vander Heide RS. Unexpected Features of Cardiac Pathology in Covid-19 Infection. Circulation,142:1123-1125 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.049465 

Fox SE, Lameira FS, Rinker EB, Vander Heide RS. Cardiac Endotheliitis and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome after Covid-19. Annals of Internal Medicine, ePub ahead of print, July 29, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7326/L20-0882 

Bing Han, MBBS; Ritu Bhalla, MD; Fernanda da Silva Lameira, MD; Richard Stuart Vander Heide, MD, PhD, MBA; Gordon Lee Love, MD. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Autopsies and Personal Protective Equipment. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2020 Nov 1;144(11):1295a-1295.doi:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32520590

Immunohistochemistry and Immunocytochemistry: Methods and Protocols
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LSU Lab Working to Track Omicron Cases as They Increase in Louisiana
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LSU Health New Orleans Precision Medicine Lab Hunts Omicron
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Clinical Study on Delta Variant
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LSU lab tracking COVID variants
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Myocarditis linked to COVID-19 not as common as believed
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Suiting up for COVID-19 autopsies, sharing findings
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LSU autopsy findings point to endothelium as target in the heart  
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LSU Health releases findings of COVID-19 death autopsies on local patients
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LSU Health releases results of COVID-19 death autopsies on local African American patients
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Blood clots fill lungs of black coronavirus victims, study finds
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Blood clots likely one of the major hallmarks in coronavirus deaths, LSU researchers say
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Coronavirus Autopsies: A story of 38 brains, 87 lungs and 52 hearts
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The autopsy, a fading practice, revealed secrets of COVID-19
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