Scientists from the Yale University School of Medicine conducted a study involving 1.6 thousand patients with acute kidney injury. Specialists monitored people who were diagnosed with pathology during their hospital stay with coronavirus, as well as those who did not have this infection. According to American scientists, 24-57% of hospitalizations with COVID-19 and from 61% to 78% of hospitalizations in intensive care units are accompanied by kidney damage. Doctors monitored the condition of the patients 21 days after discharge and found that the original kidney function did not recover in those who had undergone coronavirus infection. Moreover, they were more likely to require dialysis than non-COVID-19 patients with acute kidney inflammation. Those who had the infection also had a higher risk of developing chronic renal failure (CRF), the study said.
“Available data indicate a direct effect of the virus on kidney tissue. It can cause the development of acute renal failure, which is microscopically defined as severe acute tubular necrosis. Most often, such a complication develops in people with cardiovascular pathologies (hypertension, coronary heart disease) and diabetes mellitus, ”said Artur Tedeev, urologist at the Medsi Clinical Diagnostic Center, to Izvestia.
As for the study by scientists from Yale University, the identification of predictors of acute kidney damage associated with COVID-19 can help identify patients who need close outpatient monitoring during a pandemic, the authors of the work believe.
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Requires dialysis: kidney damage after COVID can become chronic