key: cord-0871897-ec160kfw
authors: El Shamy, Osama; Vassalotti, Joseph A.; Sharma, Shuchita; Aydillo-Gomez, Teresa; Marjanovic, Nada; Ramos, Irene; García-Sastre, Adolfo; Uribarri, Jaime
title: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) treated with acute peritoneal dialysis do not have infectious PD effluent
date: 2020-06-24
journal: Kidney Int
DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2020.06.012
sha: 05cc448a6ce421656231299b579cae057eea2671
doc_id: 871897
cord_uid: ec160kfw

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To the editor, 24

Acute peritoneal dialysis (PD) has been used in COVID-19 as an alternative to intermittent 25 hemodialysis or continuous renal replacement therapy to mitigate the overwhelming demand for 26 dialysis 1,2 . Liters of PD effluent are discarded in the sewerage system by both patients and 27 medical institutions performing PD on a daily basis. The detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the 28 peritoneal waste of a COVID-19 infected patient with end stage kidney disease was previously 29 reported 3 . Given the uncertainty regarding the risk for viral transmission through the handling of 30 PD effluent of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infections, we set out to determine the 31 presence and infectivity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the PD effluent of 10 admitted patients 32 with severe COVID-19 pneumonia (Table 1) 

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