Impact of COVID-19 on Global Kidney Transplantation Service Delivery: Interim Report.
Transpl Int
; 35: 10302, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1938661
ABSTRACT
This article gives a personal, historical, account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transplantation services. The content is based on discussions held at two webinars in November 2020, at which kidney transplantation experts from prestigious institutions in Europe and the United States reflected on how the pandemic affected working practices. The group discussed adaptations to clinical care (i.e., ceasing, maintaining and re-starting kidney transplantations, and cytomegalovirus infection management) across the early course of the pandemic. Discussants were re-contacted in October 2021 and asked to comment on how transplantation services had evolved, given the widespread access to COVID-19 testing and the roll-out of vaccination and booster programs. By October 2021, near-normal life and service delivery was resuming, despite substantial ongoing cases of COVID-19 infection. However, transplant recipients remained at heightened risk of COVID-19 infection despite vaccination, given their limited response to mRNA vaccines and booster dosing further risk-reduction strategies required exploration. This article provides a contemporaneous account of these different phases of the pandemic from the transplant clinician's perspective, and provides constructive suggestions for clinical practice and research.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Kidney Transplantation
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Transpl Int
Journal subject:
Transplantation
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ti.2022.10302
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