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A case of COVID-19 immediately after liver transplantation: Not only bad news
COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and has caused more 3,3 million cases and more than 230,000 deaths throughout the world, with 25,000 of them only in Spain, where the first case was diagnosed on January 31st, 2020. As COVID-19 is a “new...
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The Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7452801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32843598 http://dx.doi.org/10.14701/ahbps.2020.24.3.314 |
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author | Prieto, Mikel Gastaca, Mikel Ruiz, Patricia Ventoso, Alberto Palomares, Ibone Rodr íguez-Álvarez, Regino José Salvador, Patricia Bustamante, Javier Valdivieso, Andrés |
author_facet | Prieto, Mikel Gastaca, Mikel Ruiz, Patricia Ventoso, Alberto Palomares, Ibone Rodr íguez-Álvarez, Regino José Salvador, Patricia Bustamante, Javier Valdivieso, Andrés |
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description | COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and has caused more 3,3 million cases and more than 230,000 deaths throughout the world, with 25,000 of them only in Spain, where the first case was diagnosed on January 31st, 2020. As COVID-19 is a “new” disease, we still do not have data on prognosis or treatment in transplant patients or on how to manage immunosuppression in this complex scenario. We present a case of COVID-19 diagnosed during the early postoperative period in a recipient whose liver transplantation was performed on late March during the lockdown in Spain, with donor and recipient previously negative rRT-PCR to SARS-CoV-2. In the first post-operative week the patient suffered COVID-19 pneumonia that was treated with immunosuppression minimization, oral Hydroxycloroquine and Azithromycin with favorable outcome. The patient was discharged on POD 21 without complications. To date, few early post-liver transplantation SARS-CoV-2 infected recipients have been published, but only one was an early postoperative infection. In our case the outcome was favorable, even though it was an early post -liver transplantation COVID-19 in a frail patient. |
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spelling | pubmed-74528012020-09-03 A case of COVID-19 immediately after liver transplantation: Not only bad news Prieto, Mikel Gastaca, Mikel Ruiz, Patricia Ventoso, Alberto Palomares, Ibone Rodr íguez-Álvarez, Regino José Salvador, Patricia Bustamante, Javier Valdivieso, Andrés Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg Case Report COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and has caused more 3,3 million cases and more than 230,000 deaths throughout the world, with 25,000 of them only in Spain, where the first case was diagnosed on January 31st, 2020. As COVID-19 is a “new” disease, we still do not have data on prognosis or treatment in transplant patients or on how to manage immunosuppression in this complex scenario. We present a case of COVID-19 diagnosed during the early postoperative period in a recipient whose liver transplantation was performed on late March during the lockdown in Spain, with donor and recipient previously negative rRT-PCR to SARS-CoV-2. In the first post-operative week the patient suffered COVID-19 pneumonia that was treated with immunosuppression minimization, oral Hydroxycloroquine and Azithromycin with favorable outcome. The patient was discharged on POD 21 without complications. To date, few early post-liver transplantation SARS-CoV-2 infected recipients have been published, but only one was an early postoperative infection. In our case the outcome was favorable, even though it was an early post -liver transplantation COVID-19 in a frail patient. The Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery 2020-08-31 2020-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7452801/ /pubmed/32843598 http://dx.doi.org/10.14701/ahbps.2020.24.3.314 Text en Copyright © 2020 by The Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Prieto, Mikel Gastaca, Mikel Ruiz, Patricia Ventoso, Alberto Palomares, Ibone Rodr íguez-Álvarez, Regino José Salvador, Patricia Bustamante, Javier Valdivieso, Andrés A case of COVID-19 immediately after liver transplantation: Not only bad news |
title | A case of COVID-19 immediately after liver transplantation: Not only bad news |
title_full | A case of COVID-19 immediately after liver transplantation: Not only bad news |
title_fullStr | A case of COVID-19 immediately after liver transplantation: Not only bad news |
title_full_unstemmed | A case of COVID-19 immediately after liver transplantation: Not only bad news |
title_short | A case of COVID-19 immediately after liver transplantation: Not only bad news |
title_sort | case of covid-19 immediately after liver transplantation: not only bad news |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7452801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32843598 http://dx.doi.org/10.14701/ahbps.2020.24.3.314 |
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