2019 novel coronavirus disease in hemodialysis (HD) patients: Report from one HD center in Wuhan, China
Yiqiong Ma, Bo Diao, Xifeng Lv, Jili Zhu, Wei Liang, Lei Liu, Wenduo Bu, Huiling Cheng, Sihao Zhang, Ming Shi, Guohua Ding, Bo Shen, Huiming Wang
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027201
Abstract
The outbreak of COVID-19 originated in Wuhan has become a global epidemic of contagious diseases, which poses a serious threat to human life and health, especially for those with underlined diseases. However, Impacts of COVID-19 epidemic on HD center and HD patients are still unknown. In this report, we reviewed the whole course of the epidemic emerged in the HD center of Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University from January 14, 2020, the day the first case was confirmed, to February 17, 2020, the day the epidemic extinction. There are totally 37 cases among 230 HD patients and 4 cases among 33 staff being diagnosed with COVID-19. The epidemiology, clinical presentation and immune profile of dialysis patients contracted COVID-19 were further studied. We found that the two key measures we took in response to the epidemic, one was upgrading level of prevention and protection on January 21 and the other one starting universal screening, isolating, and distributing the infected cases on February 4, were effective in the epidemic control.
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