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Identifying a Kidney Transplant Recipient COVID Phenotype to Aid Test Utilization in the Setting of Limited Testing Availability-Does One Exist?
Transplantation proceedings - 1 Nov 2020
Virmani Sarthak, Gleeson Shana E, Girone Gianna F, Malhotra Divyanshu, Cohen Elizabeth A, Klarman Sharon E, Asch William S
Abstract excerpt
The high morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 in immunocompetent patients raises significant concern for immunosuppressed kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). This level of concern, both on the part of the KTRs and transplant professionals, is heightened by a lack of prior knowledge on how Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) may manifest differently in immunosuppressed patients. Characterizing...
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