Predictive ability of severity scores and outcomes for mortality in kidney transplant recipients with coronavirus disease 2019 admitted to the intensive care unit: results from a Brazilian single-center cohort study.
Maria Bethânia PeruzzoLucio Roberto Requião MouraMônica Rica NakamuraLaila Almeida VianaMarina Pontello CristelliHélio Tedesco Silva-JuniorJosé Osmar Medina de Abreu PestanaPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia (2022)
KT recipients had high mortality, which was associated with type of donor, troponin levels, early use of vasopressors, and MV requirement. The other traditional severity scores investigated could not predict mortality.