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Editor, Senior Moderator
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses
. 2020 Jul 21.
doi: 10.1089/AID.2020.0114. Online ahead of print.
Progressive renal impairment in an older patient with 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a case report and literature review
Dan Zhu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jilin Xu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hui Chen[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Saibin Wang[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Long Yu[SUP] 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Advanced age is a high-risk factor for exacerbation of COVID-19 which causes a high rate of mortality. Therefore, it is important to strengthen the warning and monitoring of severe patients, and early identify the severe and critically severe types in time in the clinical treatment of COVID-19. Moreover, it is necessary to pay attention to the adverse reactions and damage to vital target organs caused by treatment drugs. This case reported the successful experience of diagnosis and treatment of an older patient with COVID-19 accompanied by progressive renal impairment, and pertinent literature was reviewed to help clinicians raise awareness of the disease.
. 2020 Jul 21.
doi: 10.1089/AID.2020.0114. Online ahead of print.
Progressive renal impairment in an older patient with 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a case report and literature review
Dan Zhu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jilin Xu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hui Chen[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Saibin Wang[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Long Yu[SUP] 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32689813
- DOI: 10.1089/AID.2020.0114
Abstract
Advanced age is a high-risk factor for exacerbation of COVID-19 which causes a high rate of mortality. Therefore, it is important to strengthen the warning and monitoring of severe patients, and early identify the severe and critically severe types in time in the clinical treatment of COVID-19. Moreover, it is necessary to pay attention to the adverse reactions and damage to vital target organs caused by treatment drugs. This case reported the successful experience of diagnosis and treatment of an older patient with COVID-19 accompanied by progressive renal impairment, and pertinent literature was reviewed to help clinicians raise awareness of the disease.