作者
M Alfishawy, A Elbendary, M Mohamed, MCOVID-19 Nassar
发表日期
2020
来源
International Journal of Organ Transplantation Medicine
卷号
11
期号
4
页码范围
145
出版商
Avicenna Organ Transplantation Institute
简介
Background:
Organ transplant recipients are vulnerable to multiple infectious agents and in a world with a circulating SARS-CoV-2 virus, it would be expected that patients who are immunosuppressed would have higher mortality.
Objective:
To determine the COVID-19 mortality in transplant recipients.
Methods:
We conducted a search in PubMed and Google scholar databases using the keywords for COVID-19 and transplantation. All related studies between January 1, 2020 and May 7, 2020 were reviewed. All relevant published articles related to COVID-19 in transplant recipients were included.
Results:
46 articles were included; they studied a total of 320 transplant patients—220 kidney transplant recipients, 42 liver, 19 heart, 22 lung, 8 HSCT, and 9 dual organ transplant recipients. The overall mortality rate was 20% and was variable among different organs and different countries. 65 transplant recipients died of …
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