Renal Involvement and Early Prognosis in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia
Tongji Hospital · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +1 more institution
Abstract
Significance Statement Some cases of COVID-19 pneumonia have presented with kidney injury, and autopsy findings for patients with COVID-19 have revealed renal involvement. In this retrospective, single-center study of Chinese patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, 251 of 333 patients (75.4%) presented with renal complications, including proteinuria, hematuria, and AKI. After the median duration of 12 days of follow-up, nearly half of patients with AKI recovered from AKI within 3 weeks of onset of infection. However, patients with renal involvement had higher overall mortality (11.2%) compared with patients without renal involvement (1.2%). Adverse short-term outcomes of renal involvement were associated with…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 18.89
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 25
Authors
12- GPGuangchang Pei
Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- ZZZhiguo Zhang
Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- JPJing Peng
Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- LLLiu Liu
Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- CZChunxiu Zhang
Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Topics & keywords
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Pneumonia
- Medicine
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Intensive care medicine
- Internal medicine
- Pathology
- Good health and well-being