Impact of COVID-19 on liver transplantation in Europe: alert from an early survey of European Liver and Intestine Transplantation Association and European Liver Transplant Registry

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tri.13680" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tri.13680</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tri.13680" target="_blank" >10.1111/tri.13680</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Impact of COVID-19 on liver transplantation in Europe: alert from an early survey of European Liver and Intestine Transplantation Association and European Liver Transplant Registry

Original language description

There are scarce data on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on liver transplantation (LT) in Europe. The aim of this study was to obtain a preliminary data on incidence, management, and outcome of COVID-19 in liver transplant recipients and candidates in Europe. An Internet-based survey was sent to the centers affiliated with European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR). One hundred nine out of 149 (73%) of ELTR centers located in 28 European countries (93%) responded. Ninety-four (86%) of the centers tested all donors, and 75 (69%) centers tested all LT recipients for SARS-CoV-2. Seventy-three (67%) centers selected recipients for LT in the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas 33% did not. Eighty-eight centers reported COVID-19 infection in 57 LT candidates and in 272 LT recipients. Overall crude incidence of COVID-19 among LT candidates and recipients was estimated 1.05% (range 0.5-20%) and 0.34% (range 0.1-4.8%), respectively, and it was significantly higher among candidates (P &lt; 0.001). Crude rate of death was 18% (10/57) among candidates and 15% (36/244) among recipients. This first large-scale European snapshot study clearly shows that both LT candidates and recipients are at a high risk for COVID-19. These results plead for an early and pro-active screening of COVID-19 symptoms in these populations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30213 - Transplantation

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Transplant international

ISSN

0934-0874

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1244-1252

UT code for WoS article

000558782500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85088436450