Goff, Rebecca R Wilk, Amber R Toll, Alice E McBride, Maureen A Klassen, David K
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
COVID-19 has been sweeping the globe, hitting the United States particularly hard with a state of emergency declared on March 13, 2020. Transplant hospitals have taken various precautions to protect patients from potential exposure. OPTN donor, candidate, and transplant data were analyzed from May 1, 2020 to May 9, 2020. The number of new waiting l...
Candon, Sophie Guerrot, Dominique Drouot, Laurent Lemoine, Mathilde Lebourg, Ludivine Hanoy, Mélanie Boyer, Olivier Bertrand, Dominique
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Immunosuppressed organ-transplanted patients are considered at risk for severe forms of COVID-19. Moreover, exaggerated innate and adaptive immune responses might be involved in severe progression of the disease. However, no data on the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in transplanted patients are currently available. Here, we report the first assessm...
Chaudhry, Zohra S Williams, Jonathan D Vahia, Amit Fadel, Raef Parraga Acosta, Tommy Prashar, Rohini Shrivastava, Pritika Khoury, Nadeen Pinto Corrales, Julio Williams, Celeste
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTr) with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are expected to have poorer outcomes compared to nontransplant patients because of immunosuppression and comorbidities. The clinical characteristics of 47 SOTr (38 kidneys and 9 nonkidney organs) were compared to 100 consecutive hospitalized nontransplant controls. Tw...
Pérez-Sáez, María J Blasco, Miquel Redondo-Pachón, Dolores Ventura-Aguiar, Pedro Bada-Bosch, Teresa Pérez-Flores, Isabel Melilli, Edoardo Sánchez-Cámara, Luis A López-Oliva, María O Canal, Cristina
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Acute respiratory distress syndrome associated with coronavirus infection is related to a cytokine storm with large interleukin-6 (IL-6) release. The IL-6-receptor blocker tocilizumab may control the aberrant host immune response in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) . In this pandemic, kidney transplant (KT) recipients are a high-ri...
Rouphael, Carol D'Amico, Giuseppe Ricci, Kristin Cywinski, Jacek Miranda, Cyndee Koval, Christine Duggal, Abhijit Quintini, Cristiano Menon, K V Narayanan Miller, Charles
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
SARS-CoV2, first described in December 2019, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. Various surgical and medical societies promptly published guidelines, based on expert opinion, on managing patients with COVID-19, with a consensus to postpone elective surgeries and procedures. We describe the case of an orthotopic ...
Marcault, Clémence Fodil, Sofiane Dupont, Thibault Darmon, Michael Azoulay, Elie
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Bush, Rachel Johns, Felicia Acharya, Ratna Upadhyay, Kiran
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
As of mid-April 2020, the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected more than 2 million people and caused 135 000 deaths worldwide. Not much is known about the effect of this disease in immunosuppressed children with renal transplantation (RT). Here we report a 13-year-old child with multiple comorbidities who acquired COVID-19 5...
Crespo, Marta Pérez-Sáez, María J Redondo-Pachón, Dolores Llinàs-Mallol, Laura Montero, María M Villar-García, Judith Arias-Cabrales, Carlos Buxeda, Anna Burballa, Carla Vázquez, Susana
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
The SARS-Cov-2 infection disease (COVID-19) pandemic has posed at risk the kidney transplant (KT) population, particularly the elderly recipients. From March 12 until April 4, 2020, we diagnosed COVID-19 in 16 of our 324 KT patients aged ≥65 years old (4.9%). Many of them had had contact with healthcare facilities in the month prior to infection. M...
Wall, Anji E Pruett, Timothy Stock, Peter Testa, Giuliano
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American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is impacting transplant programs around the world, and, as the center of the pandemic shifts to the United States, we have to prepare to make decisions about which patients to transplant during times of constrained resources. In this paper, we discuss how to transition from the traditional justice versu...
Tzedakis, Stylianos Jeddou, Heithem Houssel-Debry, Pauline Sulpice, Laurent Boudjema, Karim
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