RT Journal Article
T1 Impact of COVID-19 on Global Kidney Transplantation Service Delivery: Interim Report.
A1 Papalois, Vassilios
A1 Kotton, Camille N
A1 Budde, Klemens
A1 Torre-Cisneros, Julian
A1 Croce, Davide
A1 Halleck, Fabian
A1 Roze, Stephane
A1 Grossi, Paolo
K1 2020
K1 COVID-19 pandemic
K1 Cytomegalovirus management
K1 Historical record
K1 Kidney transplantation
K1 Service delivery
AB This article gives a personal, historical, account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transplantation services. The content is based on discussions held at two webinars in November 2020, at which kidney transplantation experts from prestigious institutions in Europe and the United States reflected on how the pandemic affected working practices. The group discussed adaptations to clinical care (i.e., ceasing, maintaining and re-starting kidney transplantations, and cytomegalovirus infection management) across the early course of the pandemic. Discussants were re-contacted in October 2021 and asked to comment on how transplantation services had evolved, given the widespread access to COVID-19 testing and the roll-out of vaccination and booster programs. By October 2021, near-normal life and service delivery was resuming, despite substantial ongoing cases of COVID-19 infection. However, transplant recipients remained at heightened risk of COVID-19 infection despite vaccination, given their limited response to mRNA vaccines and booster dosing: further risk-reduction strategies required exploration. This article provides a contemporaneous account of these different phases of the pandemic from the transplant clinician's perspective, and provides constructive suggestions for clinical practice and research.
PB Frontiers Research Foundation
YR 2022
FD 2022-02-23
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20754
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20754
LA en
NO Papalois V, Kotton CN, Budde K, Torre-Cisneros J, Croce D, Halleck F, et al. Impact of COVID-19 on Global Kidney Transplantation Service Delivery: Interim Report. Transpl Int. 2022 Mar 28;35:10302
DS RISalud
RD Apr 4, 2025