Outpatient Management of COVID-19 With Monoclonal Antibody Therapy in a Young Renal Transplant Patient.

ABSTRACT: At baseline, solid organ transplant recipients are at an increased risk for infectious complications due to the complex immunosuppressive regimens. The available data in renal transplant patients who contract coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) demonstrates dangerously high mortality rates (33%) in those who require hospitalization and/or ICU level care. Interestingly, the data for transplant patients who do not require hospitalization shows significantly lower mortality (3%) despite being on an immunosuppressive regimen. We present the case of a young male patient with a history of renal transplant who tested positive for COVID-19; he was mildly symptomatic with cough, sinusitis, and headache, was worked up as an outpatient, and treated as an outpatient with bamlanivimab monotherapy with

SUBMITTER: Malik B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8487444 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature