Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a Renal Transplant Patient

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Transplant patients are particularly at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 because of their immunosuppressed state, and they have the propensity to develop opportunistic infections. The pre-immunosu...

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Autores principales: Chenna, Avantika, Konala, Venu Madhav, Gayam, Vijay, Naramala, Srikanth, Adapa, Sreedhar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528774
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8038
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author Chenna, Avantika
Konala, Venu Madhav
Gayam, Vijay
Naramala, Srikanth
Adapa, Sreedhar
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description Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Transplant patients are particularly at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 because of their immunosuppressed state, and they have the propensity to develop opportunistic infections. The pre-immunosuppressed state, along with other existing comorbidities, can influence the outcomes of COVID-19 in transplant patients. We describe a case of a renal transplant patient who developed COVID-19. Real-time nucleic acid testing (NAT) should be done in deceased and living donors. The most common management strategy is the modification of immunosuppression along with current experimental strategies for COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-72823622020-06-10 Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a Renal Transplant Patient Chenna, Avantika Konala, Venu Madhav Gayam, Vijay Naramala, Srikanth Adapa, Sreedhar Cureus Internal Medicine Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Transplant patients are particularly at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 because of their immunosuppressed state, and they have the propensity to develop opportunistic infections. The pre-immunosuppressed state, along with other existing comorbidities, can influence the outcomes of COVID-19 in transplant patients. We describe a case of a renal transplant patient who developed COVID-19. Real-time nucleic acid testing (NAT) should be done in deceased and living donors. The most common management strategy is the modification of immunosuppression along with current experimental strategies for COVID-19. Cureus 2020-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7282362/ /pubmed/32528774 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8038 Text en Copyright © 2020, Chenna et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Chenna, Avantika
Konala, Venu Madhav
Gayam, Vijay
Naramala, Srikanth
Adapa, Sreedhar
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a Renal Transplant Patient
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title_short Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a Renal Transplant Patient
title_sort coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in a renal transplant patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528774
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8038
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