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Managing Children With Renal Diseases During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Coronavirus outbreak is a rapidly evolving pandemic, placing unprecedented strain on health-care systems. COVID-19 presents challenges for management of children with renal diseases, especially those receiving long-term immunosuppressive medications, including renal transplant recipients and tho...

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Autores principales: Vasudevan, Anil, Mantan, Mukta, Krishnamurthy, Sriram, Pais, Priya, Mathew, Georgie, Hari, Pankaj, Kanitkar, Madhuri, Gulati, Sanjeev, Bagga, Arvind, Mishra, Om P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32727941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13312-020-1893-8
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author Vasudevan, Anil
Mantan, Mukta
Krishnamurthy, Sriram
Pais, Priya
Mathew, Georgie
Hari, Pankaj
Kanitkar, Madhuri
Gulati, Sanjeev
Bagga, Arvind
Mishra, Om P.
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Mantan, Mukta
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description The Coronavirus outbreak is a rapidly evolving pandemic, placing unprecedented strain on health-care systems. COVID-19 presents challenges for management of children with renal diseases, especially those receiving long-term immunosuppressive medications, including renal transplant recipients and those with chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury requiring dialysis. Our preparedness for managing this vulnerable group of children is the need of the hour. The purpose of this article is to provide guidance to caregivers and health care personnel involved in management of children with renal diseases and to ensure patient well-being, while protecting staff from infection.
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spelling pubmed-73872532020-07-29 Managing Children With Renal Diseases During the COVID-19 Pandemic Vasudevan, Anil Mantan, Mukta Krishnamurthy, Sriram Pais, Priya Mathew, Georgie Hari, Pankaj Kanitkar, Madhuri Gulati, Sanjeev Bagga, Arvind Mishra, Om P. Indian Pediatr Recommendations The Coronavirus outbreak is a rapidly evolving pandemic, placing unprecedented strain on health-care systems. COVID-19 presents challenges for management of children with renal diseases, especially those receiving long-term immunosuppressive medications, including renal transplant recipients and those with chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury requiring dialysis. Our preparedness for managing this vulnerable group of children is the need of the hour. The purpose of this article is to provide guidance to caregivers and health care personnel involved in management of children with renal diseases and to ensure patient well-being, while protecting staff from infection. Springer India 2020-07-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7387253/ /pubmed/32727941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13312-020-1893-8 Text en © Indian Academy of Pediatrics 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Gulati, Sanjeev
Bagga, Arvind
Mishra, Om P.
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