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Axel Heinemann
Researcher at University of Hamburg
Publications - 129
Citations - 5631
Axel Heinemann is an academic researcher from University of Hamburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Angiography. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 118 publications receiving 3711 citations. Previous affiliations of Axel Heinemann include American Board of Legal Medicine & Eppendorf (Germany).
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Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With COVID-19: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Dominic Wichmann,Jan-Peter Sperhake,Marc Lütgehetmann,Stefan Steurer,Carolin Edler,Axel Heinemann,Fabian Heinrich,Herbert Mushumba,Inga Kniep,Ann Sophie Schröder,Christoph Burdelski,Geraldine de Heer,Axel Nierhaus,Daniel Frings,Susanne Pfefferle,Heinrich Becker,Hanns Bredereke-Wiedling,Andreas de Weerth,Hans-Richard Paschen,Sara Sheikhzadeh-Eggers,Axel Stang,Stefan Schmiedel,Carsten Bokemeyer,Marylyn M. Addo,Martin Aepfelbacher,Klaus Püschel,Stefan Kluge +26 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the causes of COVID-19-related deaths were investigated in a single academic medical center in the German federal state of Hamburg for patients dying with a polymerase chain reaction-confirmed diagnosis of CoV-19 patients.
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Multiorgan and Renal Tropism of SARS-CoV-2.
Victor G. Puelles,Marc Lütgehetmann,Maja T. Lindenmeyer,Jan Sperhake,Milagros N. Wong,Lena Allweiss,Silvia Chilla,Axel Heinemann,Nicola Wanner,Shuya Liu,Fabian Braun,Shun Lu,Susanne Pfefferle,Ann Sophie Schröder,Carolin Edler,Oliver Gross,Markus Glatzel,Dominic Wichmann,Thorsten Wiech,Stefan Kluge,Klaus Pueschel,Martin Aepfelbacher,Tobias B. Huber +22 more
TL;DR: In this autopsy series, the authors found that SARS-CoV-2 has an organotropism beyond the respiratory tract, including the kidneys, heart, liver, and brai...
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Neuropathology of patients with COVID-19 in Germany: a post-mortem case series.
Jakob Matschke,Marc Lütgehetmann,Christian Hagel,Jan Sperhake,Ann Sophie Schröder,Carolin Edler,Herbert Mushumba,Antonia Fitzek,Lena Allweiss,Maura Dandri,Matthias Dottermusch,Axel Heinemann,Susanne Pfefferle,Marius Schwabenland,Daniel Sumner Magruder,Stefan Bonn,Stefan Bonn,Marco Prinz,Christian Gerloff,Klaus Püschel,Susanne Krasemann,Martin Aepfelbacher,Markus Glatzel +22 more
TL;DR: In general, neuropathological changes in patients with COVID-19 seem to be mild, with pronounced neuroinflammatory changes in the brainstem being the most common finding, and there was no evidence for CNS damage directly caused by SARS-CoV-2.
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Dying with SARS-CoV-2 infection-an autopsy study of the first consecutive 80 cases in Hamburg, Germany.
Carolin Edler,Ann Sophie Schröder,Martin Aepfelbacher,Antonia Fitzek,Axel Heinemann,Fabian Heinrich,Anke Klein,Felicia Langenwalder,Marc Lütgehetmann,Kira Meißner,Klaus Püschel,Julia Schädler,Stefan Steurer,Herbert Mushumba,Jan-Peter Sperhake +14 more
TL;DR: This study provides the largest overview of autopsies of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients presented so far and proposes a proposal for the categorisation of deaths with Sars-Cov-2 infection.
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Postmortem CT Angiography Compared with Autopsy: A Forensic Multicenter Study
Silke Grabherr,Axel Heinemann,Hermann Vogel,Guy N. Rutty,Bruno Morgan,Krzysztof Woźniak,Fabrice Dedouit,Florian Fischer,Stefanie Lochner,H. Wittig,Giuseppe Guglielmi,Franziska Eplinius,Katarzyna Michaud,Cristian Palmiere,Christine Chevallier,Patrice Mangin,Jochen M. Grimm +16 more
TL;DR: Postmortem CT and postmortem CT angiography and autopsy each detect important lesions not detected by the other method, which may increase the quality of postmortem diagnosis.