id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-349954-bozgrzvf	Quintaliani, Giuseppe	Exposure to novel coronavirus in patients on renal replacement therapy during the exponential phase of COVID-19 pandemic: survey of the Italian Society of Nephrology	2020-07-03		.txt	text/plain	3454	206	50	During the COVID-19 pandemic, among SARS-Cov-2 positive RRT patients the fatality rate was 32.8%, as compared to 13.3% observed in the Italian population as of April 23rd. CONCLUSIONS: A substantial proportion of the 60,441 surveyed RRT patients in Italy were SARS-Cov-2 positive and subsequently died during the exponential phase of COVID-19 pandemic. The urgent need for a better understanding of the epidemic in RRT patients was immediately evident, and therefore we designed a survey of the Nephrology centers in Italy, aimed to capture the main features, impact and geographical distribution of SARS-CoV-2 spread in over 60,000 prevalent RRT patients during the exponential phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The Italian Society of Nephrology COVID-19 survey confirms and extends previous preliminary observations suggesting that RRT patients, especially those on HD, are at increased risk of developing severe SARS-Cov-2 infections.	./cache/cord-349954-bozgrzvf.txt	./txt/cord-349954-bozgrzvf.txt