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Case Reports
. 2020 Sep;34(9):e14025.
doi: 10.1111/ctr.14025. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

Convalescent plasma therapy: Helpful treatment of COVID-19 in a kidney transplant recipient presenting with severe clinical manifestations and complex complications

Jipin Jiang  1   2 , Yan Miao  1   2 , Yuanyuan Zhao  1   2 , Xia Lu  1   2 , Ping Zhou  1   2 , Xiaojun Zhou  1   2 , Zhishui Chen  1   2 , Dunfeng Du  1   2
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Convalescent plasma therapy: Helpful treatment of COVID-19 in a kidney transplant recipient presenting with severe clinical manifestations and complex complications

Jipin Jiang et al. Clin Transplant. 2020 Sep.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Timeline of the illness course and therapeutic intervention
Figure 2
Figure 2
High‐resolution chest computed tomography images before and after treatment in case 1. A, Increased texture and mixed diffuse ground‐glass opacities (GGO) were observed in both lungs with linear grid shadows in between. B, The lesions were almost significantly absorbed, leaving a few places of scattered patches
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