Earliest cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) identified in solid organ transplant recipients in the United States

Am J Transplant. 2020 Jul;20(7):1885-1890 doi: 10.1111/ajt.15944.
Abstract

With the rapidly expanding pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, there is concern that solid organ transplant recipients will be particularly vulnerable to infection and may experience a more severe clinical course. We report four cases of COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients including recipients of kidney, liver, lung, and heart transplants. We describe each patient's medical history including transplantation history, their clinical presentation and workup, and their course from diagnosis to either hospital discharge or to improvement in symptoms. These reports demonstrate a range of symptoms, clinical severity, and disease course in solid organ transplant recipients with COVID-19, including two hospitalized patients and two patients managed entirely in the outpatient setting.

Metadata
Publication type: Case Reports
Organ: Various; Kidney; Liver; Heart; Lung
Language: English
Country: USA
MeSH terms: Aged; COVID-19; Coronavirus Infections; End Stage Liver Disease; Female; Heart Failure; Heart Transplantation; Hospitalization; Humans; Immunosuppression Therapy; Kidney Failure, Chronic; Kidney Transplantation; Liver Transplantation; Lung Diseases; Lung Transplantation; Male; Middle Aged; Outpatients; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; Transplant Recipients; United States; Vulnerable Populations; Washington; Covid-19