Successful treatment of severe COVID-19 pneumonia in a liver transplant recipient.
Bin LiuYangzhong WangYuanyuan ZhaoHuibo ShiFanjun ZengZhishui ChenPublished in: American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (2020)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spreads rapidly and may be an increasing challenge for transplant community. Clinical data on COVID-19 infection in transplant population is very limited. Herein we presented the clinical course and outcome of a 50-year-old male post liver transplantation who contracted COVID-19, with subsequent infection of his wife. The process of illness was representative. A therapeutic regime with temporary immunosuppression withdrawal and systemic low-dose corticosteroid as principle was involved in the management of the patient which made him recover from severe COVID-19 pneumonia.