Excess mortality among kidney transplant recipients: Impact of COVID-19-related deaths during the pandemic.

Marina Pontello CristelliCarlos Magno Castelo Branco FortalezaJoão Filipe Costa Alves PereiraJulia Bernardi TaddeoLaila Almeida VianaLucio Roberto Requião MouraCharles Yea Zen ChowMonica Rika NakamuraHélio Tedesco Silva-Junior José Osmar Medina de Abreu Pestana

Published in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2023)

In this large cohort of KTR under centralized follow-up, more than twofold excess mortality was primarily driven by COVID-19-related deaths, highlighting the vulnerability of this population to the most severe presentation of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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