COVID-19 in recent kidney transplant recipients
| Autor: | Ashay Shingare, M.M. Bahadur, Shailesh Raina |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Transplantation
medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Case Report Immunosuppression Case Reports 030230 surgery medicine.disease Comorbidity Kidney transplant Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Infectious disease (medical specialty) Internal medicine Pandemic medicine Immunology and Allergy Pharmacology (medical) business Kidney transplantation |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Transplantation |
| ISSN: | 1600-6135 |
| Popis: | As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic spread across the globe, transplant programs suffered a setback. We report the first experience of COVID‐19 infection within 1 month of living donor kidney transplant (LDKT). We describe 2 LDKT recipients who were detected positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) infection at day 19 and day 7 post‐transplant. They had minimal symptoms at diagnosis and did not develop any respiratory complications or allograft dysfunction. Immunosuppression was de‐escalated; however, nasopharyngeal swab real‐time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT‐PCR) remained positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 for a prolonged time. Younger age, absence of other comorbidities and lower dose of anti‐thymocyte globulin (ATG) used as induction possibly contributed to good outcome in our recent LDKT recipients compared with earlier published cases of recent deceased donor kidney transplant recipients with COVID‐19. |
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