key: cord-0723125-0ed03dta
authors: Sigler, Rachel; Shah, Mita; Schnickel, Gabriel; Pretorius, Victor; Dan, Jennifer; Taremi, Mahnaz; Aslam, Saima
title: Successful heart and kidney transplantation from a deceased donor with PCR positive COVID‐19
date: 2021-08-05
journal: Transpl Infect Dis
DOI: 10.1111/tid.13707
sha: d3a9d2f49ad3e5a49605c19eef818acefd31923b
doc_id: 723125
cord_uid: 0ed03dta

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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has had profound effects on organ transplantation partly due to concern for infection transmission. Risk of mortality for waitlisted candidates must be weighed against risk of transmission to the recipient and transplant team.

We report our clinical experience of transplanting three patients with organs from a deceased donor who was reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction positive (PCR+) for SARS-CoV-2 within 72 h of procurement. All recipients were informed of the donor's infection status and consented to proceed. None of the recipients had prior coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As detailed in Table 1 , the heart recipient was Status 2 and at high risk of waitlist mortality, In-house NAAT/RT-PCR nucleic acid amplification.

c Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S protein assay.

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