Organ procurement and transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Alexandre Loupy¹, Olivier Aubert², Peter P Reese³, Olivier Bastien⁴, Florian Bayer⁵, Christian Jacquelinet⁵

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¹ Paris University, Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, INSERM, UMR-S970, Paris, France; Department of Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. Electronic address: alexandre.loupy@inserm.fr.
² Paris University, Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, INSERM, UMR-S970, Paris, France; Department of Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
³ Paris University, Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, INSERM, UMR-S970, Paris, France; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ Agence de la Biomédecine, Saint Denis la Plaine, France.
⁵ Agence de la Biomédecine, Saint Denis la Plaine, France; INSERM U1018, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France.

PMID: 32407668
PMCID: PMC7213957
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31040-0

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Organ procurement and transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Alexandre Loupy et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 May 23;395(10237):e95-e96.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31040-0. Epub 2020 May 11.

Authors

Alexandre Loupy¹, Olivier Aubert², Peter P Reese³, Olivier Bastien⁴, Florian Bayer⁵, Christian Jacquelinet⁵

Affiliations

¹ Paris University, Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, INSERM, UMR-S970, Paris, France; Department of Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. Electronic address: alexandre.loupy@inserm.fr.
² Paris University, Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, INSERM, UMR-S970, Paris, France; Department of Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
³ Paris University, Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, INSERM, UMR-S970, Paris, France; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ Agence de la Biomédecine, Saint Denis la Plaine, France.
⁵ Agence de la Biomédecine, Saint Denis la Plaine, France; INSERM U1018, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France.

PMID: 32407668
PMCID: PMC7213957
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31040-0

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Trends in COVID-19 spread over time in France and the USA and recovery of organs and solid-organ transplantation procedures from deceased donors (A, C) Number of COVID-19 diagnoses and number of solid organs recovered for transplantation over time in France (A) and the USA (C). (B, D) Total number of transplants from deceased donors, with separate trend lines for kidney, liver, heart, and lung, over time in France (B) and the USA (D). Data were obtained from Public Health France (A), the National Organ Procurement Agency (B), Xu et al (C), and the United Network for Organ Sharing (D). Data accessed April 11, 2020. COVID-19=coronavirus disease 2019.

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Transplant programmes in areas with high SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
Reddy S, Dumbill R, Akhtar MZ, Udupa V, Storey BM, Gilbert J, Quiroga I, Knight S, Devaney A, Barnardo M, Connor T, Udayaraj U, Harden P, Sharples E, Mason P, Ploeg RJ, Friend PJ, Sinha S. Reddy S, et al. Lancet. 2020 Oct 31;396(10260):1395-1396. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32209-1. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 33129389 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Organ procurement and transplantation in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Qu Z, Oedingen C, Bartling T, Schrem H, Krauth C. Qu Z, et al. Lancet. 2020 Oct 31;396(10260):1395. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32213-3. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 33129390 No abstract available.

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Global kidney health 2017 and beyond: a roadmap for closing gaps in care, research, and policy.
Levin A, Tonelli M, Bonventre J, Coresh J, Donner JA, Fogo AB, Fox CS, Gansevoort RT, Heerspink HJL, Jardine M, Kasiske B, Köttgen A, Kretzler M, Levey AS, Luyckx VA, Mehta R, Moe O, Obrador G, Pannu N, Parikh CR, Perkovic V, Pollock C, Stenvinkel P, Tuttle KR, Wheeler DC, Eckardt KU; ISN Global Kidney Health Summit participants. Levin A, et al. Lancet. 2017 Oct 21;390(10105):1888-1917. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30788-2. Epub 2017 Apr 20. Lancet. 2017. PMID: 28434650 Review.

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