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COVID‐19 in pancreas transplant recipients
Author(s) -
Dube Geoffrey K.,
Husain S. Ali,
McCune Kasi R.,
Sandoval P. Rodrigo,
Ratner Lloyd E.,
Cohen David J.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transplant infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1399-3062
pISSN - 1398-2273
DOI - 10.1111/tid.13359
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , pneumonia , pandemic , covid-19 , intensive care medicine , renal transplant , population , disease , organ transplantation , coronavirus , transplantation , infectious disease (medical specialty) , environmental health
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has become a pandemic since first being described in January 2020. Clinical manifestations in non‐transplant patients range from asymptomatic infection to severe pneumonia with acute respiratory distress syndrome, multiorgan system failure, and death. Limited reports in kidney transplant recipients suggest similar characteristics in that population. We report here the first case series of COVID‐19 infection occurring in pancreas transplant recipients.