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COVID-19-related Articles

  1. Hemodialysis patients have chronic kidney disease, are often elderly, and have many complications such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiac disease, and cerebrovascular disease. Therefore, hemodialysis pa...

    Authors: Ryoichi Miyazaki, Kyoko Miyagi, Misaki Yoshida, Yasunori Suzuki and Shinya Hibino
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:38
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  2. The weakened immune system of patients on hemodialysis (HD) may prolong SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to the general population. Current international guidelines recommend ending isolation in conjunction with ...

    Authors: Gaetano Alfano, Niccolò Morisi, Camilla Ferri, Francesco Fontana, Silvia Giovanella, Giulia Ligabue, Giacomo Mori, Erica Franceschini, Annachiara Ferrari, Mariacristina Gregorini, Gianni Cappelli, Sara Tagliazucchi, Monica Pecorari, Giovanni Guaraldi, Riccardo Magistroni and Gabriele Donati
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:35
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  4. The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has dramatically altered the lifestyles of many people worldwide. Several studies reported that body weight of young adults increased during the COVID-19 pande...

    Authors: Narumi Fukuzaki, Yuta Suzuki, Juri Uchida, Takuya Nakajima, Shohei Yamamoto, Keigo Imamura, Shun Yoshikoshi, Manae Harada, Ryota Matsuzawa, Kentaro Kamiya and Atsuhiko Matsunaga
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:12
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  6. We experienced a nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from November 2020 to February 2021, during the third wave of the pandemic in Japan.

    Authors: Jun Ino, Fumika Iemura, Chihiro Nakajima, Mio Kodama, Saeko Kumon, Keitaro Sato, Hitoshi Eizumi, Nobuhiro Hijikata, Sadayuki Oshio, Shingo Tachibana, Kosaku Nitta and Junichi Hoshino
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:47
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  7. In patients with severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the use of acrylonitrile hemofilters can reduce cytokine concentrations. However, acrylonitrile hemofilters can easily coagulate, and the effect of hemof...

    Authors: Kanako Takahashi, Hiroyuki Inoue, Masumi Kishimoto, Ryuichi Nakayama, Takehiko Kasai, Naofumi Bunya, Keisuke Harada, Shuji Uemura and Eichi Narimatsu
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:45
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  8. Dialysis patients are predisposed to severe disease and have a high mortality rate in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to their comorbidities and immunocompromised conditions. Therefore, dialysis patien...

    Authors: Ayumi Yoshifuji, Masataro Toda, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Kan Kikuchi, Toru Kawai, Ken Sakai, Emi Oyama, Masayoshi Koinuma, Kazuhiko Katayama, Yuki Uehara, Norio Ohmagari, Yoshihiko Kanno, Hirofumi Kon, Toshio Shinoda, Yaoko Takano, Junko Tanaka…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:39
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  9. We experienced that some hemodialysis (HD) patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) exacerbated hypoxemia during HD. Though HD-induced hypoxemia has been reported, there have been no reports of HD-ind...

    Authors: Masataro Toda, Ayumi Yoshifuji, Kentaro Fujii, Motoaki Komatsu, Ai Kato, Ikue Tamura, Wataru Sugi and Munekazu Ryuzaki
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:22
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  10. Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who receive dialysis therapy develop more severe disease and have a poorer prognosis than patients who do not. Although various data on the treatment of patien...

    Authors: Ayumi Yoshifuji, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Yuki Uehara, Norio Ohmagari, Toru Kawai, Yoshihiko Kanno, Kan Kikuchi, Hiroshi Kon, Ken Sakai, Toshio Shinoda, Yaoko Takano, Junko Tanaka, Kazuhiko Hora, Yasushi Nakazawa, Naoki Hasegawa, Norio Hanafusa…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:18
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  11. The mortality rate of novel coronaviral disease (COVID-19) patients undergoing dialysis is considerably higher than that of patients with normal kidney function. As of August 2021, only remdesivir has been app...

    Authors: Jun Ito, Moritsugu Kimura, Tomoyuki Toya, Konomi Isozumi, Atsuro Kawaji, Yudai Isozaki and Masafumi Fukagawa
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:14
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  12. Currently, it is unclear whether the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) could be an independent predictor of antibody response after administration of a COVID-19 vaccine. This study aimed to investiga...

    Authors: Masatoshi Matsunami, Tomo Suzuki, Junko Fukuda, Toshiki Terao, Kohei Ukai, Shinnosuke Sugihara, Takumi Toishi, Kanako Nagaoka, Mayumi Nakata, Mamiko Ohara, Jun Yashima, Hiroshi Kuji and Kosei Matsue
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:13
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  13. Patients on hemodialysis (HD) face a high mortality risk from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and they are therefore prioritized for...

    Authors: Mineaki Kitamura, Takahiro Takazono, Kazuko Yamamoto, Takashi Harada, Satoshi Funakoshi, Hiroshi Mukae and Tomoya Nishino
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:8
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  14. The Japanese Association of Dialysis Physicians, the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, and the Japanese Society of Nephrology jointly established COVID-19 Task Force Committee and began surveying the numb...

    Authors: Kan Kikuchi, Masaomi Nangaku, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Tomoyuki Yamakawa, Oota Yoshihiro, Norio Hanafusa, Ken Sakai, Yoshihiko Kanno, Ryoichi Ando, Toshio Shinoda, Hidetomo Nakamoto and Tadao Akizawa
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2021 7:59
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  15. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can infect the kidney and the presence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) constitutes a higher risk of negative prognosis. SARS-CoV-2 main sequelae in ...

    Authors: Heitor S. Ribeiro, Amanda E. Rodrigues, Jennifer Cantuária, Antônio Inda-Filho and Paul N. Bennett
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2021 7:33
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. Despite the fact that the fundamental characteristics of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) are respiratory manifestations, multi-organ failure including the kidney has been documented. There are no clear com...

    Authors: Enass E. El-Sayed, Abdou K. Allayeh, Amany A. Salem, Sheren M. Omar, Salwa M. Zaghlol, Hala M. Abd-Elmaguid, Mohammed M. Abdul-Ghaffar and Magdy M. ElSharkawy
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2021 7:32
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  17. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global pandemic affecting a variety of medical treatments, including hemodialysis. This...

    Authors: Yuka Sugawara, Masao Iwagami, Kan Kikuchi, Yoko Yoshida, Ryoichi Ando, Toshio Shinoda, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Hidetomo Nakamoto, Ken Sakai, Norio Hanafusa, Naoki Kashihara and Masaomi Nangaku
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2021 7:27
    Content type: Position statement Published on:

  18. During the outbreak of new coronavirus pneumonia, many hospitals in China became the designated hospitals for the treatment of new coronavirus pneumonia. The goal was to develop rapid and effective prevention ...

    Authors: Jinmei Yin, Jun Yin, Zhiwu Tian, Peiqiu Li and Xiaoqiu Chen
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2021 7:19
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  19. Complications of acute kidney injury (AKI) are common in patients with coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19). However, clinical characteristics of COVID-19-associated AKI are poorly described. We present two ...

    Authors: Takuya Fujimaru, Keiki Shimada, Takayuki Hamada, Kimio Watanabe, Yugo Ito, Masahiko Nagahama, Fumika Taki, Shutaro Isokawa, Toru Hifumi, Norio Otani and Masaaki Nakayama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2020 6:59
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  20. Social frailty—the lack of a connection to society and infrequent social activities—has been reported to be associated with future declines in physical function in elderly individuals. This study aimed to eval...

    Authors: Koki Abe, Yoshinosuke Shimamura, Takuto Maeda, Yoshikazu Kato, Yasuyoshi Yoshimura, Tomomi Tanaka and Hideki Takizawa
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2020 6:36
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