Acute and chronic histopathological findings in renal biopsies in COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: The dominant ICU admission diagnosis of COVID-19 patients is respiratory insufficiency, but 32-57% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients develop acute kidney injury (COVID-AKI). The renal histopathological changes accompanying COVID-AKI are not yet fully described. To obtain a detailed insight into renal histopathological features of COVID-19, we conducted a review including all studies reporting histopathological findings of diagnostic and postmortem kidney biopsies from patients with COVID-19 published between January 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021. A total of 89 diagnostic and 194 postmortem renal biopsies from individual patients in 39 published studies were investigated and were included in the analysis. In the diagnostic biopsy group, mean age was 56 years and AKI incidence was 96%. In th

SUBMITTER: Volbeda M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9672628 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature