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cord-323809-bocidwg4	Patel, Dhwanil	COVID-19 EXTRAPULMONARY ILLNESS - The Impact of COVID-19 on Nephrology Care	2020-07-25		.txt	text/plain	3418	196	48	It has also impacted different aspects of caring for people with kidney disease, including those with acute kidney injury (AKI), chronic kidney disease (CKD), those requiring kidney replacement therapy (KRT), and those with a kidney transplant. In this article we review how COVID-19 involves the kidney, causing acute kidney injury (AKI), and how it affects patients on kidney replacement therapy (KRT) with hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD), and those with a kidney transplant. Kidney transplant recipients infected with COVID-19 appear to have similar clinical presentations as the general population, though morbidity, including need for mechanical ventilation, and mortality vary among reports. In another case series of 35 kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 from both the inpatient and outpatient settings in New York, 39% of patients needed mechanical ventilation, 21% needed KRT, and the mortality rate was 28% at 3 weeks, significantly higher than the general population in the United States whose mortality rate is reported to be 1 to 5% 49 .	./cache/cord-323809-bocidwg4.txt	./txt/cord-323809-bocidwg4.txt