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Acute Kidney Injury associated with COVID‐19 – Cumulative Evidence and Rationale supporting Against Direct Kidney Injury (Infection) – Wiley
Acute kidney injury is a common complication, affecting up to 37% of hospitalized patients with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and is proportional to its severity and portends…
Abstract
Acute kidney injury is a common complication, affecting up to 37% of hospitalized patients with SARSCoV2 infection and is proportional to its severity and portends poor prognosis. Diverse mechanisms have been proposed and studies reported conflicting results. Moreover, renal tropism of SARSCoV2 does not equate to its renal pathogenicity. For a virus to be pathogenic, in addition to its affinity (tropism) for specific tissue(s), host cells must allow viral entry, and discuss the important…
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