Living During COVID-19 While Immunocompromised: A Patient and Physician Perspective from France.
Elise FoudratSophie CaillardPublished in: Infectious diseases and therapy (2024)
This article is co-authored by a kidney transplant recipient and her nephrologist. By sharing her personal experience of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the patient illustrates the concerns of immunocompromised patients during this unprecedented health crisis. She describes the difficulties encountered at work, the omnipresent protective measures, and the need for appropriate information. The nephrologist, who follows a cohort of over 1700 kidney transplant recipients, recounts the medical team's struggle to protect their vulnerable patients against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), as a veritable succession of hopes and disappointments. She describes the management of immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients, the deployment of the COVID-19 vaccination program with the finding of poor immune responses in many patients including those receiving immunosuppressant drugs after kidney transplant, and the first use of prophylactic monoclonal antibodies. From both the patient's and the physician's perspectives, the COVID-19 pandemic has required continuous adaptation.
Keyphrases
- sars cov
- coronavirus disease
- end stage renal disease
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- public health
- healthcare
- immune response
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- microbial community
- mental health
- social media
- intensive care unit
- quality improvement
- climate change
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- health information
- toll like receptor
- patient reported
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation