VAROTTI , Giovanni

COVID-19, the ongoing pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, has had a dramatic impact on transplant systems in the most affected countries, namely Italy. Preliminary data indicates that patients on hemodialysis therapy as well kidney transplant (KTx) recipients appear to be particularly susceptible to COVID-19 illness due to immunosuppression and...

BACKGROUND: Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-KP) infections in solid organ transplant patients are progressively increasing and are associated with worse outcomes, although potential risk factors and therapeutic strategies are still not well defined. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective matched-pair analysis in which we compared...