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01-12-2020 | Kidney Transplantation | Research Letter
Incidence of acute kidney injury in COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors:
Yih-Ting Chen, Shih-Chieh Shao, Cheng-Kai Hsu, I-Wen Wu, Ming-Jui Hung, Yung-Chang Chen
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 1/2020
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Excerpt
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), primarily affecting respiratory systems, has become pandemic and spread worldwide. Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been reported as a severe complication of COVID-19 with a higher risk of mortality [
1], but the incidence of AKI among those infected with COVID-19 is currently only based on reports from small case series and retrospective studies [
2,
3]. Therefore, in this work, we aim to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of published articles to quantify the incidence of AKI in COVID-19 patients. …