New York's largest health provider found that 36.6% of patients treated for the coronavirus in its system developed acute kidney injury.
CHICAGO, May 14 - Over a third of patients treated for COVID-19 in a large New York medical system developed acute kidney injury, and nearly 15% required dialysis, U.S.researchers reported on Thursday.
“We found in the first 5,449 patients admitted, 36.6%developed acute kidney injury,” said study co-author Dr. Kenar Jhaveri, associated chief of nephrology at Hofstra/Northwell in Great Neck, New York, whose findings were published in the journal Kidney International.Of those patients with kidney failure, 14.3% required dialysis, Jhaveri said in a phone interview.
Several groups have noted increased rates of kidney failure among patients with COVID-19. Jhaveri and colleagues set out to quantify it by combing through medical records of 5,449 COVID-19patients hospitalized between March 1 and April 5. In many cases, the kidney failure occurred around the time severely ill patients needed to be placed on a ventilator, Jhaveri said.
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