— Studies from a special COVID-focused ECCMID pre-conference
The use of abdominal organs from COVID-19-positive donors for transplant was safe, a small study showed.
No rejection occurred among four recipients who received liver, kidney, or pancreas transplants from four COVID-positive donors, and none of the recipients acquired a COVID infection, reported Emily Eichenberger, MD, of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, at a special COVID-focused pre-meeting of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). Read more.