The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Patients: Initial Results of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Association's International Survey

Letter Immunology

Novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in a patient with multivisceral transplant

Rodrigo Papa-Gobbi et al.

TRANSPLANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE (2021)

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Incidence and outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection on solid organ transplantation recipients: A nationwide population-based study

Silvia Trapani et al.

Summary: Italy has set up a dedicated surveillance system for COVID-19 cases, revealing higher infection and mortality rates in solid organ transplant recipients, especially in the Lombardy region. Heart transplant recipients have a higher infection rate, while liver transplant recipients have a lower rate. Further studies on disease management and evolution are needed for these high-risk patients.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION (2021)

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Article Urology & Nephrology

COVID-19?Associated Mortality among Kidney Transplant Recipients and Candidates in the United States

Sumit Mohan et al.

Summary: The study found higher mortality rates associated with COVID-19 among waitlisted kidney transplant candidates and recipients in the United States in 2020. 11% of deaths among waitlisted candidates and 16% of deaths among active transplant recipients were attributed to COVID-19. Additionally, there was higher overall mortality in 2020 among waitlisted candidates (24%) compared to kidney transplant recipients (20%).

CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY (2021)

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Article Nutrition & Dietetics

An International Survey of Clinicians' Experience Caring for Patients Receiving Home Parenteral Nutrition for Chronic Intestinal Failure During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Philip J. Allan et al.

Summary: This survey found that the COVID-19 pandemic had a far-reaching adverse impact on patients receiving HPN, especially in terms of safety regarding provision of personal protective equipment, PN bags, available nursing staff, and psychological well-being. Healthcare systems responded to the challenge and presented new ways of working.

JOURNAL OF PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION (2021)

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Article Nutrition & Dietetics

COVID-19 infection in patients with intestinal failure: UK experience

P. J. Allan et al.

Summary: This study is the first to describe the outcomes of COVID-19 in a large cohort of patients requiring long-term PN. Methods to reduce hospital and community nosocomial spread would likely be beneficial.

JOURNAL OF PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION (2021)

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Article Gastroenterology & Hepatology

COVID-19 in liver transplant candidates: pretransplant and post-transplant outcomes - an ELITA/ELTR multicentre cohort study

Luca Saverio Belli et al.

Summary: COVID-19 significantly impacts the mortality rate of liver transplant candidates, especially for those with high Lab-MELD scores and respiratory symptoms. Poor prognosis was observed in patients with decompensated cirrhosis, highlighting the need for strict preventive measures and urgent vaccination efficacy testing in this population. Prior symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection did not affect early post-transplant survival.

GUT (2021)

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