Overcoming obstacles in Panama to starting a renal biopsy program in a rural area during the COVID-19 pandemic

Due to the many implemented restrictions, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has rendered some tasks more difficult, for instance, the evaluation of outpatients. Panama’s tertiary care hospital for kidney biopsy referral was transformed into a COVID-only hospital in order to assist the large number of COVID-19...

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Autores principales: Courville, Karen, Milord, Rolando, Cerrud, Jonathan, Bustamante, Norman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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From Distant Places
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9396578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35997937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40620-022-01403-z
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description Due to the many implemented restrictions, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has rendered some tasks more difficult, for instance, the evaluation of outpatients. Panama’s tertiary care hospital for kidney biopsy referral was transformed into a COVID-only hospital in order to assist the large number of COVID-19 patients. In order to face the impossibility of following patients with nephrotic or nephritic syndrome, a biopsy program was implemented in a southern province in Panama. Thirty kidney biopsies were carried out over a 1-year period. This experience shows that kidney biopsy programs, that are usually run only in large referral centers, can also be implemented in small nephrology centers, allowing to obtain accurate diagnoses and to guide correct treatment.
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spelling pubmed-93965782022-08-23 Overcoming obstacles in Panama to starting a renal biopsy program in a rural area during the COVID-19 pandemic Courville, Karen Milord, Rolando Cerrud, Jonathan Bustamante, Norman J Nephrol From Distant Places Due to the many implemented restrictions, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has rendered some tasks more difficult, for instance, the evaluation of outpatients. Panama’s tertiary care hospital for kidney biopsy referral was transformed into a COVID-only hospital in order to assist the large number of COVID-19 patients. In order to face the impossibility of following patients with nephrotic or nephritic syndrome, a biopsy program was implemented in a southern province in Panama. Thirty kidney biopsies were carried out over a 1-year period. This experience shows that kidney biopsy programs, that are usually run only in large referral centers, can also be implemented in small nephrology centers, allowing to obtain accurate diagnoses and to guide correct treatment. Springer International Publishing 2022-08-23 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9396578/ /pubmed/35997937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40620-022-01403-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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