How should I manage immunosuppression in a kidney transplant patient with COVID-19? An ERA-EDTA DESCARTES expert opinion

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¹ Dipartimento di Medicina e Chrurgia, Università d Parma, UO Nefrologia, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy.
² Department of Nephrology, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Department of Nephrology, Hospital del Mar Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Renal Transplantation, University North Hospital, Saint Etienne, France.
⁵ Department of Transplant Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
⁶ Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Turin, Italy.
⁷ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁸ Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁹ Department of Nephrology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Department of Nephrology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

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Umberto Maggiore et al. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2020.

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doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfaa130.

¹ Dipartimento di Medicina e Chrurgia, Università d Parma, UO Nefrologia, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy.
² Department of Nephrology, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Department of Nephrology, Hospital del Mar Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Renal Transplantation, University North Hospital, Saint Etienne, France.
⁵ Department of Transplant Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
⁶ Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Turin, Italy.
⁷ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁸ Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁹ Department of Nephrology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Department of Nephrology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

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