Kidney Biopsy Findings in Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or After COVID-19 Vaccination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emerging case series described a temporal association between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination and de novo or relapsing kidney diseases. We aimed to further understand vaccination- and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated kidney diseases.

Methods

We present findings from native kidney biopsies of patients recently vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 ( n =27) and those with COVID-19 ( n =15), reviewed at a single German center. Diagnoses were compared among all native kidney biopsies ( n =10,206) obtained between the prepandemic (2019), pandemic (2020), and vaccination periods (2021) to determine whether there was an increase in kidney diseases in the observed periods.

Results

Biopsy indication was increased serum

SUBMITTER: de Las Mercedes Noriega M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10278827 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature