Hospitalization and death after recovery from acute COVID-19 among renal transplant recipients.
Clin Transplant
; 36(4): e14572, 2022 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1583609
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Data on post-COVID-19 in renal transplant recipients (RTR) is scarce. We investigated the rate of hospitalizations, reasons for hospital admission, and mortality rate among RTR who survived acute COVID-19.METHODS:
A multi-center retrospective observational cohort study measured hospital admission and death to 180 days after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in 308 adult patients.RESULTS:
The median age was 57 years, 64.9% were male. All patients had at least one comorbidity, and 26.3% had diabetes. Data on post-COVID-19 course was available for 267 patients, and 49 of them (15.9%) required hospital treatment after recovery from the acute infection. The most common indications included pneumonia (24.5%) and renal allograft dysfunction (22.4%), 7 (14.3%) had sepsis and 5 (10.2%) had thrombotic events. A median duration of the hospital stay was 12 days. Six patients (2.2%) died due to multiorgan failure, respiratory insufficiency or urosepsis. The strongest predictor for hospitalization after acute COVID-19 was hospitalization for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, while better allograft function decreased the probability of hospitalization.CONCLUSION:
Delayed consequences of acute COVID-19 are highly prevalent and the health care systems should be prepared to respond to the needs of RTR suffering from post-COVID-19 complications.Keywords
Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Kidney Transplantation
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Sepsis
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Clin Transplant
Journal subject:
Transplantation
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ctr.14572
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