[PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY IN THE TIME OF CORONA]

Symptomatic coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) infection usually presents with upper airway symptoms, but may lead to complications, such as pneumonia and involvement of other organs, or even death. Children often have a mild clinical course or may be asymptomatic, however, a severe complication of multisystem inflammatory syndrome has been described in rare cases. In severe COVID-19 infection, acute kidney injury may manifest even in children without comorbidities. The aim of this review is to present available data on renal involvement in pediatric COVID-19, and disease manifestations in children with underlying chronic kidney disease (CKD) or children receiving immunosuppressive medications due to kidney transplantation or glomerular disease. Although it could be assumed that children with CKD, including immunosuppressed patients, might be a high risk group for infection and severity of COVID-19 disease, this is not supported by current available data.