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Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform
Published on: April 12, 2021
Predicting Mortality of COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Developed Scores
Gulsah Sasak Kuzgun1, Sabahat Alisir Ecder, Tahsin Karaaslan
1From the Department of Nephrology, Prof Dr Suleyman Yalcin City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Objectives:
COVID-19 is a recently discovered β-subtype coronavirus infection due to SARS-CoV-2. Approximately 20% of COVID-19 patients have moderate to severe clinical manifestations and 5% progress to critical illness. Kidney transplant patients form a special group. In our study, we aimed to evaluate the success of the COVID-gram score and systemic immuno-inflammation index score in predicting the risk of mortality during hospitalization among kidney transplant patients.
Materials And Methods:
Our study included 50 kidney transplant patients with positive real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction COVID-19 tests between March 2020 and March 2021. Risk scores were calculated using baseline clinical data collected retrospectively from the patient cohort.
Results:
The mean age was 54.3 ± 10.2. The mortality rate was 12%. When we compared the COVID-gram and systemic immuno-inflammation index scores between survivors and nonsurvivors, we did not find any difference.
Conclusions:
Kidney and other solid-organ transplant patients are at greater risk of infection and mortality than other groups. Accurate risk-predicting tools are imperative for managing the COVID-19 pandemic with limited health resources.
