Kidney Biopsy Findings in Patients with COVID-19.
Satoru KudoseIbrahim BatalDominick SantorielloKatherine XuJonathan BaraschYonatan PelegPietro A CanettaLloyd E RatnerMaddalena MarasàAli G GharaviM Barry StokesGlen S MarkowitzVivette D D'AgatiPublished in: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN (2020)
Patients with COVID-19 develop a wide spectrum of glomerular and tubular diseases. Our findings provide evidence against direct viral infection of the kidneys as the major pathomechanism for COVID-19-related kidney injury and implicate cytokine-mediated effects and heightened adaptive immune responses.