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Clinical, Functional, and Mental Health Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients 3 Months After a Diagnosis of Covid-19 Publisher Pubmed



Duivenvoorden R1 ; Vart P2 ; Noordzij M2 ; Soares Dos Santos AC3 ; Zulkarnaev AB4 ; Franssen CFM2 ; Kuypers D5 ; Demir E6 ; Rahimzadeh H7 ; Kerschbaum J8 ; Jager KJ9 ; Turkmen K10 ; Hemmelder MH11, 12 ; Schouten M13 Show All Authors
Authors
  1. Duivenvoorden R1
  2. Vart P2
  3. Noordzij M2
  4. Soares Dos Santos AC3
  5. Zulkarnaev AB4
  6. Franssen CFM2
  7. Kuypers D5
  8. Demir E6
  9. Rahimzadeh H7
  10. Kerschbaum J8
  11. Jager KJ9
  12. Turkmen K10
  13. Hemmelder MH11, 12
  14. Schouten M13
  15. Rodriguezferrero ML14
  16. Crespo M15
  17. Gansevoort RT2
  18. Hilbrands LB1
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Authors Affiliations
  1. 1. Department of Nephrology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  2. 2. Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, 9713 GZ, Netherlands
  3. 3. Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  4. 4. Surgical Department of Transplantation and Dialysis, Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation
  5. 5. Department of Nephrology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  6. 6. Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
  7. 7. Department of Nephrology, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  8. 8. Austrian Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Department of Internal Medicine IV, Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  9. 9. ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  10. 10. Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram School of Medicine, Konya, Turkey
  11. 11. Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands
  12. 12. CARIM School for Cardiovascular Disease, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
  13. 13. Department of Internal Medicine, Tergooi Hospital, Hilversum, Netherlands
  14. 14. Nephrology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
  15. 15. Department of Nephrology, Hospital Del Mar Andand Hospital, Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Source: Transplantation Published:2022


Abstract

Background. Kidney transplant patients are at high risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related mortality. However, limited data are available on longer-term clinical, functional, and mental health outcomes in patients who survive COVID-19. Methods. We analyzed data from adult kidney transplant patients in the European Renal Association COVID-19 Database who presented with COVID-19 between February 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021. Results. We included 912 patients with a mean age of 56.7 (±13.7) y. 26.4% were not hospitalized, 57.5% were hospitalized without need for intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and 16.1% were hospitalized and admitted to the ICU. At 3 mo follow-up survival was 82.3% overall, and 98.8%, 84.2%, and 49.0%, respectively, in each group. At 3 mo follow-up biopsy-proven acute rejection, need for renal replacement therapy, and graft failure occurred in the overall group in 0.8%, 2.6%, and 1.8% respectively, and in 2.1%, 10.6%, and 10.6% of ICU-admitted patients, respectively. Of the surviving patients, 83.3% and 94.4% reached their pre-COVID-19 physician-reported functional and mental health status, respectively, within 3 mo. Of patients who had not yet reached their prior functional and mental health status, their treating physicians expected that 79.6% and 80.0%, respectively, still would do so within the coming year. ICU admission was independently associated with a low likelihood to reach prior functional and mental health status. Conclusions. In kidney transplant recipients alive at 3-mo follow-up, clinical, physician-reported functional, and mental health recovery was good for both nonhospitalized and hospitalized patients. Recovery was, however, less favorable for patients who had been admitted to the ICU. © 2022 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.