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KIDNEY INJURY FOLLOWING COVID-19: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY IN A TERTIARY CARE CLINIC
ĐIĐI DELALIĆ
; University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
INGRID PRKAČIN
; University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb; Emergency Internal Medicine Department, Merkur University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
More than two years have passed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 500 million people infected by SARSCoV-2. In this period, thanks to the large amounts of enthusiasm and curiosity the medical community is well known for, an impressive body of evidence and literature regarding COVID-19 has been amassed, looking into every aspect of the disease that even today remains a mystery in a lot of its segments. While there are large amounts of research related to acute COVID-19 and the nuances of its pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment, a new branch of ‘COVID research’ is starting to emerge as time passes,- i.e., long or post-COVID research, especially following several papers that show that the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the human body and its organ systems can last for far longer than the acute disease itself. This study assessed the incidence of kidney injury in patients who have previously had COVID-19, confi rmed with a positive polymerase chain reaction test. On a modest sample of a little less than 200 patients, we found that around 6% of patients who had mild COVID-19 without the need for hospitalization had some degree of kidney injury that persisted from several weeks to several months. This number tells us that we should monitor COVID-19 patients not only during the active disease phase, but also enable routine checkups several months following the active infection.
Keywords
COVID-19; kidney injury; long-COVID; post-COVID; SARS-CoV-2
Hrčak ID:
294425
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Publication date:
27.2.2023.
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