IMPact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the moRTAlity of kidney transplant recipients and candidates in a French Nationwide registry sTudy (IMPORTANT).

End stage kidney disease increase the risk of COVID-19 related death but how the kidney replacement strategy should be adapted during the pandemic is unknown. Chronic hemodialysis makes social distancing difficult to achieve. Alternatively, kidney transplantation could increase the severity of COVID-19 due to therapeutic immunosuppression and contribute to saturation of intensive care units. For these reasons, kidney transplantation was suspended in France during the first epidemic wave. Here, we retrospectively evaluated this strategy by comparing the overall and COVID-19 related mortality in kidney transplant recipients and candidates over the last three years.

Source: Kidney International - October 29, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Olivier Thaunat, Camille Legeai, Dany Anglicheau, Lionel Couzi, Gilles Blancho, Marc Hazzan, Myriam Pastural, Emilie Savoye, Florian Bayer, Emmanuel Morelon, Yann Le Meur, Olivier Bastien, Sophie Caillard, French nationwide Registry of Solid Organ Transpl Tags: clinical investigation Source Type: research