COVID and the kidney

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A short talk on Coronavirus infections and the kidney. A couple of amendments from emerging information within 48h of publication:

Transplant patients are at greater risk than suggested here - but they've been good at protecting themselves, so we haven't seen so many infections.
The risk for Haemodialysis patients is high. 20% mortality from UK data. However many in this group have substantial comorbities, and it includes a significant proportion of elderly and frail. Risk will not be evenly distributed across this group.

Worth emphasising also that severe (dialysis-requiring) AKI is almost entirely restricted to the most severely ill patients on intensive care units.

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COVID and the kidney

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