id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-296331-i4hyzqcv Adapa, Sreedhar COVID-19 Pandemic Causing Acute Kidney Injury and Impact on Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease and Renal Transplantation 2020-06-04 .txt text/plain 5086 289 49 COVID-19 infection causes acute kidney injury (AKI) and is an independent risk factor for mortality. The impact of COVID-19 infection on chronic kidney disease (CKD) and renal transplant patients is also discussed in the manuscript. Acute kidney injury (AKI) was seen in 5-15% of the cases infected with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, and had a higher mortality rate of 60-90% as per the literature [12] . We summarized the finding from multiple studies including patient characteristics, co-morbidities, incidence of AKI in general as well as ICU/severely ill patients, number of patients requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and mortality in Table 2 [9-11, 13, 19, 22-24, 26-32] . Human kidney is a target for novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection. Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan ./cache/cord-296331-i4hyzqcv.txt ./txt/cord-296331-i4hyzqcv.txt