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Impact of COVID-19 on Global Kidney Transplantation Service Delivery: Interim Report

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 refl...

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Autores principales: Papalois, Vassilios, Kotton, Camille N., Budde, Klemens, Torre-Cisneros, Julian, Croce, Davide, Halleck, Fabian, Roze, Stéphane, Grossi, Paolo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8996250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35418803
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2022.10302
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author Papalois, Vassilios
Kotton, Camille N.
Budde, Klemens
Torre-Cisneros, Julian
Croce, Davide
Halleck, Fabian
Roze, Stéphane
Grossi, Paolo
author_facet Papalois, Vassilios
Kotton, Camille N.
Budde, Klemens
Torre-Cisneros, Julian
Croce, Davide
Halleck, Fabian
Roze, Stéphane
Grossi, Paolo
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-89962502022-04-12 Impact of COVID-19 on Global Kidney Transplantation Service Delivery: Interim Report Papalois, Vassilios Kotton, Camille N. Budde, Klemens Torre-Cisneros, Julian Croce, Davide Halleck, Fabian Roze, Stéphane Grossi, Paolo Transpl Int Health Archive 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8996250/ /pubmed/35418803 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2022.10302 Text en Copyright © 2022 Papalois, Kotton, Budde, Torre-Cisneros, Croce, Halleck, Roze and Grossi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Global Kidney Transplantation Service Delivery: Interim Report
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