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. 2021 Mar;99(3):771-772.
doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2020.12.008. Epub 2021 Jan 11.

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Olivier Thaunat  1 , Camille Legeai  2 , Olivier Bastien  2 , Sophie Caillard  3
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Olivier Thaunat et al. Kidney Int. 2021 Mar.
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Patients in the Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic on the Mortality of Kidney Transplant Recipients and Candidates in a French Nationwide Registry study (IMPORTANT) study. The patients of the IMPORTANT study who lived in the areas with intense virus circulation during the first epidemic wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were distributed into 4 groups: renal transplant candidates active (solid blue line) and inactive (dashed blue line) on the national wating list and renal transplant recipients transplanted for 1 year or less (dashed red line) or more than 1 year (solid red line). (a) Incidence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in the 4 groups. (b) Survival of patients infected with SARS-Cov-2 in the 4 groups. (c) Global survival of the patients for the 4 groups over the study period. Log-rank tests.
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