Similar mortality for patients with COVID-19 on dialysis, kidney recipients with COVID-19

Mortality among kidney transplant patients with COVID-19 and those on dialysis with COVID-19 was similar during the first and second waves of the pandemic in Europe.

“A number of studies compared mortality in the first and second waves among patients receiving kidney replacement therapy (KRT). These studies were hampered by the fact that they were single center by design and consequently had a small sample size,” Priya Vart, PhD, from the department internal medicine at the University Medical Center Groningen in The Netherlands, and colleagues wrote. “Furthermore, they lacked information on key patient and disease-related characteristics, including comorbidities, the reason for COVID-19 screening and disease symptoms.” Read more in Healio.