Excess mortality in solid organ transplant recipients hospitalized with COVID-19: A large-scale comparison of SOT recipients hospitalized with or without COVID-19.
Karola S JeringMartina M McGrathFinnian R Mc CauslandBrian ClaggettJonathan W CunninghamScott D SolomonPublished in: Clinical transplantation (2021)
In this large cohort of SOT recipients, hospitalization with COVID-19 was associated with higher odds of complications and in-hospital mortality than non-COVID-19 related admissions, and 2.5-fold higher odds of in-hospital mortality, compared to SOT recipients with non-COVID-19 pneumonia.