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SARS-CoV-2 infection in hemodialysis patients: Preliminary data from a Portuguese hospital center

2020; Volume: 35; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.32932/pjnh.2020.10.083

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Joana Tavares, Bruno Dias, João Oliveira, Inês Sala, Filipa Silva, Ana Castro, Ana C. Freitas, Tomás Fonseca, João Vitor Cândido Pimentel, António Cabrita, Rui Castro,

SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

This is a retrospective study, performed on patients admitted to our center who met the criteria below.Clinical data were reviewed, and demographic, clinical, analytical and patient outcomes assessed.Defined as a case were all patients on chronic hemodialysis, admitted to our center due to COVID -19 disease, with a laboratory confirmation of SARS -CoV2 infection through identification of viral RNA in the nasopharynx or oropharynx by real -time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT -PCR) technique 7 .