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COVID-19 and Transplant Patients

Transplants | Last Active: Mar 6, 2021 | Replies (459)

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@zon

This was interesting, but a bit dated.

This page from the NephJC, nephrology journal club, discusses the common questions transplant professionals as well as transplant patients may have with respect to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
http://www.nephjc.com/news/covidtx

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This is excellent @zon. I added the source of the URL in your post so that members know what they're clicking on. 😉

For those who aren't familiar with NephJC, it a nephrology journal club that uses Twitter to discuss the research, guidelines, and editorials that drive nephrology. This means physicians, researchers, patients and more use the hashtag #NephJC on Twitter to share all things nephrology. They have a website http://www.nephjc.com/ and @NephJC host a twice monthly Twitter chat on Tuesdays.

Thanks to @zon, I just found out they also have a podcast. Wow.

Zon, all things COVID change so fast and frequently. What aspects of the COVID-19 Q&A are dated already?

Hi, @zon. I just got around to reading the information in the link you provided and want to thank you for it. I am a liver transplant recipient but I believe that much of the information is applicable for liver transplant patients also.
I have read, and unfortunately cannot remember the source, that although we are more prone to getting infected there is evidence that once an immunosuppressed person has COVID the prospects or recovery are pretty much the same as with more typical people. I generally do not give much credence to information unless the source is one I believe to be reputable so I think that must have been.
JK

@zon Thank you for posting this link. a very interesting read. Just a few days ago, my husband, who is a kidney transplant recipient, expressed that the respiratory illness he had back in January might indeed have been COVID-19 before it really had taken hold. Both he and his son had similar illnesses about the same time, and they have individually come to think that they were infected. Fortunately both are well again, but it does make one wonder if there are other situations like that, out there?
Ginger