Background: COVID-19 severity is determined by cardiometabolic risk factors, which can be
further aggravated by chronic immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) …

ABSTRACT COVID-19 is a disease whose knowledge is still under construction, high
transmissibility, with no consensual treatment available to everyone. Therefore, the …

Introduction As the studies predicting mortality in severe acute respiratory illness (SARI)
have inferred associations either from dichotomous outcomes or from time-event models, we …

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), especially those on dialysis or who have
received a kidney transplant (KT), are considered more vulnerable to severe COVID-19. This …

Objective To evaluate clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients infected
with HIV, and to compare with a paired sample without HIV infection. Methods This is a …

Background Acute kidney injury has been described as a common complication in patients
hospitalized with COVID-19, which may lead to the need for kidney replacement therapy …

Introduction: Lymphopenia is a laboratory marker of poor prognosis and severity of disease
in the SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study aims to describe the immune profile of a Brazilian …

The COVID-19 pandemic was a major public health threat and the pressure to find curative
therapies was tremendous. Particularly in the early critical phase of the pandemic, a lot of …

Fundamento Apesar da ausência de evidência mostrando benefícios da hidroxicloroquina e
da cloroquina combinadas ou não à azitromicina no tratamento da covid-19, esses …

The overwhelming majority of SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological studies cover a narrow time
period, making general knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic difficult. To assess …