COVID19 IN MAINTAINENCE HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS - CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND OUTCOMES

摘要

Introduction: The unprecedented pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, began in December 2019 in China and rapidly spread globally. ESRD patients on maintenance haemo- dialysis (MHD) are vulnerable to COVID19 due to various comorbidites like Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Cardiovascular disease. There is limited experience about the clinical profile of hemodialysis patients with COVID19 infection.We describe our experience of 35 MHD pa- tients who developed COVID19 at a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India. We also compared the clinical and laboratory parameters of critical and non-critical patients.