COVID-19 in Spain : Transplantation in the midst of the pandemic

© 2020 The American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons..

Spain has been one of the most affected countries by the COVID-19 outbreak. As of April 28, 2020, the number of confirmed cases is 210 773, including 102 548 patients recovered, more than 10 300 admitted to the ICU, and 23 822 deaths, with a global case fatality rate of 11.3%. From the perspective of donation and transplantation, the Spanish system first focused on safety issues, providing recommendations for donor evaluation and testing, and to rule out SARS-CoV-2 infection in potential recipients prior to transplantation. Since the country entered into an epidemiological scenario of sustained community transmission and saturation of intensive care, developing donation and transplantation procedures has become highly complex. Since the national state of alarm was declared in Spain on March 13, 2020, the mean number of donors has declined from 7.2 to 1.2 per day, and the mean number of transplants from 16.1 to 2.1 per day. Increased mortality on the waiting list may become a collateral damage of this terrible pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons - 20(2020), 9 vom: 15. Sept., Seite 2593-2598

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Domínguez-Gil, Beatriz [VerfasserIn]
Coll, Elisabeth [VerfasserIn]
Fernández-Ruiz, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Corral, Esther [VerfasserIn]
Del Río, Francisco [VerfasserIn]
Zaragoza, Rafael [VerfasserIn]
Rubio, Juan J [VerfasserIn]
Hernández, Domingo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical research/practice
Donors and donation
Donors and donation: donor evaluation
Donors and donation: donor-derived infections
Health services and outcomes research
Infection and infectious agents - viral
Infectious disease
Journal Article
Organ procurement and allocation
Organ transplantation in general
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 10.09.2020

Date Revised 24.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ajt.15983

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309428084