COVID-19 in heart transplant patients: Case reports from Brazil.
Rafaela Vale de Miranda SorianoJoão Manoel Rossi-NetoMarco Aurelio FingerCarolina Casadei Dos SantosHui Tzu Lin-WangPublished in: Clinical transplantation (2021)
Heart transplant patients had similar symptoms and outcomes as the general population; immunosuppressive therapy seems not to have protected them. Patients who presented higher levels of troponin and D-dimer, associated with greater GGO pulmonary infiltrates, had worse outcomes. More studies with larger cohorts may clarify immunosuppressive effects on COVID-19 outcomes.