Patient and Methods
We enrolled all post renal transplant patients diagnosed with COVID-19
infection with a Polymerase chain reaction test (PCR) who were admitted
to the intensive care unit (ICU) of our hospital from
1st March to 30th September 2020.
All patient’s demographic data,
number and type of comorbidities, type and timing of the transplant,
current patient medications, the severity of the disease, sepsis
markers, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapy requirements,
secondary infections, ventilatory requirements, and ventilator days,
need of vasopressors and outcomes were recorded retrospectively from the
patients’ electronic data files.