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TRANSPLANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tid.13388
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COVID-19; favipiravir; kidney transplant recipient; tocilizumab
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A case of COVID-19 in a kidney transplant patient in Thailand is reported. The patient's symptoms improved after receiving high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy and antiviral treatment, but reversible acute kidney injury occurred due to drug interaction between tacrolimus and antiviral treatment.
We report a case of COVID-19 in kidney transplant patient in Thailand. A 58-year-old 2 years post-kidney transplant recipient, with maintenance immunosuppression of tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and prednisolone, presented with acute diarrhea which followed by fever on day 12. Symptoms of pneumonia together with lymphopenia from complete blood count were developed on day 7 after onset of fever with the x-ray finding of bilateral multifocal patchy infiltration. COVID-19 infection has been confirmed by reverse real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in nasal swab as well as found in stool. Darunavir together with ritonavir, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and favipiravir was initiated on the first day of admission at primary hospital. Patient has been transferred to our hospital on day 2 of admission in which tacrolimus together with MMF was discontinued. High-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy was required on days 4-5 of hospitalization. Tocilizumab was administered after rising of serum IL-6 level. Symptoms of pneumonia were improved in which no oxygen treatment required from day 10 of hospitalization. Drug interaction between tacrolimus and anti-viral treatment leads to severely high level of tacrolimus which caused reversible acute kidney injury (AKI) after supportive treatment.
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