Inflammation and vascular remodeling in COVID-19 hearts.

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"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. NIH Grant HL94567, HL134229 to Maximilian Ackermann and Steven J. Mentzer. The grant of the European Research Council (ERC); European Consolidator Grant, XHale to Danny Jonigk (ref. no.771883). This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (Clinical Research Unit [KFO311] to J.D.S, D.J., J.B., K.C.W., and T.K.). A.T. and J.D.H. were supported by the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH), Grant Nr: FTC-2020-10. This work was supported by the German Registry of COVID-19 Autopsies (DeRegCOVID, www.DeRegCOVID.ukaachen.de; supported by the Federal Ministry of Health—ZMVI1-2520COR201), and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the Network of University Medicine (DEFEAT PANDEMIcs, 01KX2021). PB is supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft—DFG; Project IDs 322900939, 454024652, 445703531), the European Research Council (ERC; Consolidator Grant AIM.imaging.CKD, grant agreement No 101001791), and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (STOP-FSGS-01GM1901A). TS is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy -EXC 2067/1-390729940."