id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-318029-xd7nuahh Ke, Chunjin 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in hemodialysis patients: a report of two cases 2020-04-30 .txt text/plain 1097 93 47 authors: Ke, Chunjin; Wang, Yufeng; Zeng, Xing; Yang, Chunguang; Hu, Zhiquan OBJECTIVE: To analyze the diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic renal failure complicated with novel coronavirus pneumonia, and to evaluate the effect of blood purification technology on the treatment and prognosis of such patients METHODS: Two COVID-19 cases undergoing hemodialysis with chronic renal failure were retrospectively analysed in our hospital. On January 8, 2020, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention officially announced the pneumonia was caused by a new type of coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [2] . Hyperviremia and cytokine storm are important causes for COVID-19's evolution to severe pneumonia, even to multiple organ dysfunction in a few cases [6] . Blood purification technology seems to be helpful for preventing COVID-19 patients with chronic renal failure from severe pneumonia or even multiple organ dysfunction. Interferon and cytokine responses to SARS-coronavirus infection ./cache/cord-318029-xd7nuahh.txt ./txt/cord-318029-xd7nuahh.txt