key: cord-339336-vea7a1rm
authors: Coates, P. Toby
title: A Kidney International “Journal of the COVID-19 Year” in Kidney Transplantation
date: 2020-10-19
journal: Kidney Int
DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2020.10.006
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doc_id: 339336
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Population based mortality data provided on 4298 patients from Spain and France were reported to the Registry covering the period from 1 st February 2020 till 30 th April 2020. In the kidney transplant recipients crude mortality was highest in those over the age of 75 and highest in those with a primary underlying disease was diabetes mellitus. The probability of death was greater in Spain than France during this period (5) .

A second report in this issue of the Journal uses the French Cristal Registry in combination with the COVID-19 specific registry to provide a more detailed insight to COVID-19 in France -the IMPORTANT study (6) . Over 42,000 kidney transplant recipients and 16000 wait listed patients are studied in this report which covers the peak of the first wave pandemic in 

Both recipients and candidates for transplantation who died were older, more often diabetic and had cardiovascular comorbidities. When high viral risk areas and low viral risk areas in France were compared, death for transplant candidates and recipients were comparable in high risk areas, but in low risk areas, death for the wait listed candidate greatly exceeded those who received a kidney.

From across the Atlantic, in the United States, Azzi et al (7) 

A journal of the plague year

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COVID-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients Kidney Int

Scolari F A single center observational study of the clinical characteristics and short-term outcome of 20 kidney transplant patients admitted for SARS-CoV2 pneumonia Kidney Int

ZA Results from the ERA-EDTA Registry indicate a high mortality due to COVID-19 in dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients across Europe

IMPact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the moRTAlity of renal transplant recipients and candidates: a French Nationwide registry sTudy (IMPORTANT)

COVID-19 Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients at the Epicenter of pandemics

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