Ozgur Akin Oto, Savas Ozturk, Mustafa Arici, Arzu Velioğlu, Belda Dursun, Nurana Guller, İdris Şahin, Zeynep Ebru Eser, Saime Paydaş, Sinan Trabulus, Sümeyra Koyuncu, Murathan Uyar, Zeynep Ural, Rezzan Eren Sadioğlu, Hamad Dheir, Neriman Sıla Koç, Hakan Özer, Beyza Algül Durak, Cuma Bülent Gül, Umut Kasapoğlu, Ebru Gök Oğuz, Mehmet Tanrısev, Gülşah Şaşak Kuzgun, Safak Mirioglu, Erkan Dervişoğlu, Ertuğrul Erken, Numan Görgülü, Sultan Özkurt, Zeki Aydın, İlhan Kurultak, Melike Betül Öğütmen, Serkan Bakırdöğen, Burcu Kaya, Serhat Karadağ, Memnune Sena Ulu, Özkan Güngör, Elif Arı Bakır, Ali Rıza Odabaş, Nurhan Seyahi, Alaattin Yıldız, Kenan Ateş, MİRİOĞLU, ŞAFAK, and Oto O. A., Ozturk S., ARICI M., VELİOĞLU A., DURSUN B., Guller N., ŞAHİN İ., Eser Z. E., PAYDAŞ S., TRABULUS S., et al.
Background In this study, we evaluated 3-month clinical outcomes of kidney transplant recipients (KTR) recovering from COVID-19 and compared them with a control group. Method The primary endpoint was death in the third month. Secondary endpoints were ongoing respiratory symptoms, need for home oxygen therapy, rehospitalization for any reason, lower respiratory tract infection, urinary tract infection, biopsy-proven acute rejection, venous/arterial thromboembolic event, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection/disease and BK viruria/viremia at 3 months. Results A total of 944 KTR from 29 different centers were included in this study (523 patients in the COVID-19 group; 421 patients in the control group). The mean age was 46 ± 12 years (interquartile range 37–55) and 532 (56.4%) of them were male. Total number of deaths was 8 [7 (1.3%) in COVID-19 group, 1 (0.2%) in control group; P = 0.082]. The proportion of patients with ongoing respiratory symptoms [43 (8.2%) versus 4 (1.0%); P Conclusion The prevalence of ongoing respiratory symptoms increased in the first 3 months post-COVID in KTRs who have recovered from COVID-19, but mortality was not significantly different.