The COVID-19 infection in dialysis: are home-based renal replacement therapies a way to improve patient management?

Mario Cozzolino¹, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli^{2

3}, Talat Alp Ikizler⁴, Claudio Ronco^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milan, Italy. mario.cozzolino@unimi.it.
² Centre Hospitalier Le Mans, France, Le Mans, France.
³ Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
⁴ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
⁶ Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplant, International Renal Research Institute, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy.

Editorial

Mario Cozzolino et al. J Nephrol. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;33(4):629-631.

doi: 10.1007/s40620-020-00784-3.

Mario Cozzolino¹, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli^{2

3}, Talat Alp Ikizler⁴, Claudio Ronco^{5

6}

¹ Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milan, Italy. mario.cozzolino@unimi.it.
² Centre Hospitalier Le Mans, France, Le Mans, France.
³ Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
⁴ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
⁶ Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplant, International Renal Research Institute, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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