Case report: A kidney transplant patient with mild COVID‐19

• DOI: 10.1111/tid.13296
• Publication Date: 2020-04-17T06:05:14Z
• Authors: Emre Arpali; Basak Akyollu; Berna Yelken; Suda Tekin; Aydin Turkmen; Burak Kocak
• Keywords: Pandemic

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently a pandemic with mortality rate of 1%-6% in the general population. However, seems to be significantly higher elderly patients, especially those hospitalized comorbidities, such as hypertension, diabetes, or coronary artery diseases. Because viral diseases may have atypical presentations immunosuppressed course disease transplant patient population unknown. Hence, management these patients COVID-19 an area interest, and unique approach warranted. Here, we report clinical features our treatment for kidney diagnosis COVID-19. We believe that screening protocols SARS-Cov-2 should re-evaluated solid-organ transplants.