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

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 dialysi...

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Published in:Renal failure 2020-01, Vol.42 (1), p.710-725
Main Authors: Ulu, Sena, Gungor, Ozkan, Gok Oguz, Ebru, Hasbal, Nuri Baris, Turgut, Didem, Arici, Mustafa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
acute kidney injury
Acute Kidney Injury - diagnosis
Acute Kidney Injury - epidemiology
Acute Kidney Injury - therapy
Adult
Aged
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Dialysis
Female
Global Health
glomerulonephritis
Hemodialysis
Humans
hypertension
Infection Control - organization & administration
Kidney diseases
Kidney Failure, Chronic - diagnosis
Kidney Failure, Chronic - epidemiology
Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy
Kidney transplantation
Male
Middle Aged
Nephrologists - organization & administration
Nephrology
Nephrology - organization & administration
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pandemics - statistics & numerical data
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Practice Patterns, Physicians' - organization & administration
Renal Dialysis - methods
Renal Dialysis - statistics & numerical data
renal transplantation
Review
Risk groups
Safety Management - organization & administration
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
State of the Art Review
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0886-022X
1525-6049
DOI:10.1080/0886022X.2020.1797791