High mortality among kidney transplant recipients diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019: Results from the Brazilian multicenter cohort study.
Lucio Roberto Requião MouraTainá Veras de Sandes-FreitasLaila Almeida VianaMarina Pontello CristelliLuis Gustavo Modelli de AndradeValter Duro GarciaClaudia Maria Costa de OliveiraRonaldo de Matos EsmeraldoMario Abbud FilhoAlvaro Pacheco-SilvaKatia Cronemberger SousaAlessandra Rosa VicariKellen Micheline Alves Henrique CostaDenise Rodrigues SimãoMarcos Vinicius de SousaJuliana Bastos CamposRicardo Augusto Monteiro de Barros AlmeidaLuciane Mônica DeboniMiguel Moysés NetoJuliana Aparecida ZanoccoHelio Tedesco-SilvaJosé Medina-Pestananull nullPublished in: PloS one (2021)
The patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were long-term KT recipients and most of them had some comorbidities. One in every five patients died, and the rate of death was significantly higher in those with AKI, mainly when RRT was required.