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- Title
The COVID‐19 second wave risk and liver transplantation: lesson from the recent past and the unavoidable need of living donors.
- Authors
Di Sandro, Stefano; Magistri, Paolo; Bagnardi, Vincenzo; Catellani, Barbara; Guerrini, Gian Piero; Di Benedetto, Fabrizio
- Abstract
COVID-19 does not seem to be more risky for transplant recipients [8,9], moreover living donors are "super-healthy" people by definition, thus at the lowest risk of COVID-19 complications compared to the general population. September 2020 signed the beginning of the second wave of COVID-19 outbreak in Italy (Figure S1) [1]. Similarly, the dropout risk of the 1,000 patients considered in the virtual cohort appeared to progressively increase from the COVID-19 outbreak compared to the pre-COVID-19 scenario (5% vs. 7% at 1 year and 8% vs. 13% at 2 years, respectively, for pre- and post-COVID-19) (Fig.
- Subjects
LIVER transplantation; COVID-19; LIVER surgery; COVID-19 pandemic; KIDNEY exchange
- Publication
Transplant International, 2021, Vol 34, Issue 3, p585
- ISSN
0934-0874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/tri.13803