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Review
. 2020 Nov;42(1):710-725.
doi: 10.1080/0886022X.2020.1797791.

COVID-19: a novel menace for the practice of nephrology and how to manage it with minor devastation?

Sena Ulu  1 , Ozkan Gungor  2 , Ebru Gok Oguz  3 , Nuri Baris Hasbal  4 , Didem Turgut  5 , Mustafa Arici  6
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Review

COVID-19: a novel menace for the practice of nephrology and how to manage it with minor devastation?

Sena Ulu et al. Ren Fail. 2020 Nov.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) became a nightmare for the world since December 2019. Although the disease affects people at any age; elderly patients and those with comorbidities were more affected. Everyday nephrologists see patients with hypertension, chronic kidney disease, maintenance dialysis treatment or kidney transplant who are also high-risk groups for the COVID-19. Beyond that, COVID-19 or severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) due to infection may directly affect kidney functions. This broad spectrum of COVID-19 influence on kidney patients and kidney functions obviously necessitate an up to date management policy for nephrological care. This review overviews and purifies recently published literature in a question to answer format for the practicing nephrologists that will often encounter COVID-19 and kidney related cases during the pandemic times.

Keywords: COVID-19; acute kidney injury; glomerulonephritis; hemodialysis; hypertension; renal transplantation.

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Management algorithm for HD patients with fever and/or dyspnea. CT: computerized tomography; HD: hemodialysis.
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