High rate of renal recovery in survivors of COVID-19 associated acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy.
Jacob S StevensKristen L KingShelief Y Robbins-JuarezPascale KhairallahKatherine TomaHector Alvarado VerduzcoEmily DanielDenzil DouglasAndrew A MosesYonatan PelegPiotr StarakiewiczMiah T LiDaniel W KimKathleen YuLong QianVaqar H ShahMax R O'DonnellMatthew J CummingsJason ZuckerKarthik NatarajanAdler PerotteDemetra TsapepasKiryluk KrzysztofGeoffrey DubeEric SiddallShayan ShirazianThomas L NickolasMaya K RaoJonathan M BaraschAnthony M ValeriJai RadhakrishnanAli G GharaviS Ali HusainSumit MohanPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Our analysis demonstrates the high prevalence of AKI requiring RRT among critically ill patients with COVID-19 and is associated with a high mortality, however, the rate of renal recovery is high among survivors and should inform shared-decision making.