An auspicious triumph of recovery from dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury in COVID-19 in a patient with chronic kidney disease, α-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and liver transplant: A case report.

We report a unique case of an immunosuppressed 67-year-old female with homozygous Z-allele mutation A1AT deficiency and liver transplant with baseline chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage IIIa with creatinine of 1 mg/dL and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 49 mL/min/1.73m2 ~ 6 months before the presentation. She presented with COVID-19 mediated hypoxic respiratory failure complicated by AKI requiring provisional renal replacement therapy with recovery of kidney function with a new baseline of creatinine of 1.6 - 1.8 mg/dL with GFR of 31 mL/min/1.73m2. PMID: 32909541 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32909541?dopt=Abstract

Source: Clinical Nephrology - September 9, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: De Souza L, Nwanji V, Kaur G Tags: Clin Nephrol Source Type: research