COVID-19 in recent kidney transplant recipients

• DOI: 10.1111/ajt.16120
• Publication Date: 2020-06-09T02:55:25Z
• Authors: Ashay Shingare; Madan M. Bahadur; Shailesh Raina
• Keywords: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirus Infections; Pandemic

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spread across globe, transplant programs suffered a setback. We report first experience of COVID-19 infection within 1 month living donor kidney (LDKT). describe 2 LDKT recipients who were detected positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) at day 19 and 7 posttransplant. They had minimal symptoms diagnosis did not develop any complications or allograft dysfunction. Immunosuppression was de-escalated; however, nasopharyngeal swab real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) remained SARS-CoV-2 prolonged time. Younger age, absence other comorbidities, lower dose anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) used as induction possibly contributed to good outcome in our recent compared with earlier published cases deceased COVID-19.