Immunosuppression in solid organ transplant recipients with Covid-19: More data, but still complicated.

Madeleine R Heldman Olivia S Kates Cynthia E Fisher Ajit P Limaye

Published in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2021)

"Outcomes of COVID-19 in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients: a matched cohort study" by Pereira et al found similar 28 day mortality among hospitalized SOT recipients and comorbidity matched controls, shedding light on the relationship between immunosuppression and Covid-19 outcomes.

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insulin resistance
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