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TRANSPLANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tid.13334
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coronavirus; COVID-19; immunosuppression; kidney transplantation; pandemic; tocilizumab
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Although immunosuppressed patients may be more prone to SARS-CoV-2 infection with atypical presentation, long-term immunosuppression therapy may provide some sort of protection for severe clinical complications of COVID-19. The interaction between immunosuppression and new antiviral drugs in the treatment of transplanted patients contracting COVID-19 has not yet been fully investigated. Moreover, data regarding the optimal management of these patients are still very limited. We report a case of the successful recovery from severe COVID-19 of a kidney-transplanted patient treated with hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir, steroid, and tocilizumab.
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