Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Kidney Transplantation in Saudi Arabia: Outcomes and Future Opportunities

CONCLUSIONS Despite kidney transplant recipients with coronavirus disease 2019 infection having higher rate of hospital admission and mortality compared to the general population, a significant number of them can be managed using a telemedicine clinic. Most kidney transplant patients seem to mount an antibody response following coronavirus disease 2019 infection, and it remains to be seen if they will have a similar response to the incoming vaccines.PMID:34083502 | DOI:10.12659/AOT.931832

Source: Annals of Transplantation - June 4, 2021 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Ali Alshaqaq Abdulnaser Al Abadi Abdulrahman Altheaby Mohammed A Bukhari Basil Alnasrallah Alaa Alamoudi Ziad Arabi Fayez Alhejaili Khalid Bin Saad Ahmed Busbaih Mohammed Abdelrahim Idris Sumayah Askandarani Meteb M AlBugami Fahad E Alotaibe Khaled Hamawi Source Type: research