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COVID-19 and Renal Disease

A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Uremic Toxins".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 2103

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Silvia Lai

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Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Interests: hemodialysis; clinical nephrology; chronic kidney failure; acute kidney injury; hypertension; renal failure; kidney

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The prevalence of acute kidney injury and/or chronic kidney disease and/or abnormal urinalysis in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 seems to be high and appears as a negative prognostic factor. Urinalysis appears to be very useful in unveiling potential kidney impairment of COVID-19 patients therefore urinalysis could be used to reflect and predict the disease severity. Therefore we believe it is important to evaluate short and long term renal impairment in SARS-COV2 infection. Moreover electrolytic, inflammatory and metabolic alterations should be evaluated in these patients, as they could worsen the prognosis in the short and long term. Another important aspect to evaluate is the response to SARS-COV 2 vaccines which have in some cases presented renal involvement.

Dr. Silvia Lai
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • renal damage
  • SARS-COV-2 infection
  • chronic kidney disease
  • inflammation

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High Plasma Levels of Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Are Associated with Increased Risk of COVID-19 in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Hemodialysis: Results of a Prospective Cohort
by Luis Toro, Luis Michea, Alfredo Parra-Lucares, Gabriel Mendez-Valdes, Eduardo Villa, Ignacio Bravo, Catalina Pumarino, Patricia Ayala, María Eugenia Sanhueza, Ruben Torres, Leticia Elgueta, Sebastian Chavez, Veronica Rojas and Miriam Alvo
Toxins 2023, 15(2), 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins15020097 - 19 Jan 2023
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End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients are a population with high rates of COVID-19 and mortality. These patients present a low response to anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunization, which is associated with immune dysfunction. ESRD patients also present high plasma titers of Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 (FGF23), [...] Read more.
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients are a population with high rates of COVID-19 and mortality. These patients present a low response to anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunization, which is associated with immune dysfunction. ESRD patients also present high plasma titers of Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 (FGF23), a protein hormone that reduces immune response in vivo and in vitro. Increased FGF23 levels associate with higher infection-related hospitalizations and adverse infectious outcomes. Thus, we evaluated whether ESRD patients with high FGF23 titers have an increased rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods: We performed a prospective cohort of ESRD patients in hemodialysis who had measurements of plasma intact FGF23 in 2019. We determined COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and mortality between January 2020 and December 2021. Results: We evaluated 243 patients. Age: 60.4 ± 10.8 years. Female: 120 (49.3%), diabetes: 110 (45.2%). During follow-up, 45 patients developed COVID-19 (18.5%), 35 patients were hospitalized, and 12 patients died (mortality rate: 26.6%). We found that patients with higher FGF23 levels (defined as equal or above median) had a higher rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection versus those with lower levels (18.8% versus 9.9%; Hazard ratio: 1.92 [1.03–3.56], p = 0.039). Multivariate analysis showed that increased plasma FGF23 was independently associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19. Discussion: Our results suggest that high plasma FGF23 levels are a risk factor for developing COVID-19 in ESRD patients. These data support the potential immunosuppressive effects of high circulating FGF23 as a factor implicated in the association with worse clinical outcomes. Further data are needed to confirm this hypothesis. Full article
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