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Table 3 Patients’ treatment regimens and outcomes

From: COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Experience from the First Two Waves of Pandemic

 

All patients (n = 475)

Survivors (n = 428)

Non-survivors (n = 47)

p-value

Duration of hospitalization (days)

10 (6–14)

9 (6–13)

15 (8–27)

 < 0.001

Withdrawal of IS agent

 Calcineurin inhibitors

49 (10.3)

32 (7.5)

17 (36.2)

 < 0.001

 Antimetabolites

428 (90.1)

386 (90.2)

42 (89.3)

 

Treatment of infection

 Hydroxychloroquine

105 (22.1)

95 (22.2)

10 (21.3)

0.89

 Favipiravir

391 (82.3)

346 (80.8)

45 (95.7)

0.005

 Oseltamivir

26 (5.5)

24 (5.6)

2 (4.3)

0.514

Cytokine‐targeted therapy

 Anakinra

18 (3.8)

14 (3.3)

4 (8.5)

0.09

 Tocilizumab

14 (3.4)

11 (2.6)

3 (6.4)

0.152

 Convalescent plasma

21 (4.4)

14 (3.3)

7 (14.9)

 < 0.001

 IVIG

17 (3.6)

12 (2.8)

5 (11.3)

0.02

Anticoagulation

344 (72.4)

303 (70.8)

41 (87.2)

0.026

Antibiotics

248 (52.2)

216 (50.5)

32 (68.1)

0.032

Ventilation devices

 Nasal cannula

158 (33.2)

158 (36.9)

0

 < 0.001

 Non-invasive ventilation

25 (5.3)

24 (5.6)

1 (2.1)

 < 0.001

 Mechanical ventilation

53 (11.2)

7 (1.6)

46 (97.9)

 < 0.001

Acute kidney injury

168 (35.3)

130 (30.4)

38 (80.9)

 < 0.001

 Stage 1

87 (18.3)

73 (17.1)

14 (29.8)

0.032

 Stage 2

35 (7.4)

26 (6.1)

9 (19.2)

0.003

 Stage 3

46 (9.7)

31 (7.2)

15 (31.9)

 < 0.001

Cytokine storm

56 (11.8)

30 (7)

26 (55.3)

 < 0.001

ARDS

80 (16.8)

34 (7.9)

46 (97.9)

 < 0.001

Hospitalization

195 (41.1)

195 (45.6)

0

 < 0.001

ICU admission

69 (14.5)

23 (5.4)

46 (97.9)

 < 0.001

  1. Abbreviations; IS immunosuppression, IVIG Intravenous immunoglobulin, ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome, ICU Intensive care unit
  2. P-values compared survivors and non-survivors, obtained from the Chi-Square test, Fisher’s exact test, or Mann–Whitney U test. Data were presented as n (%) or median [Interquartile range 25–75]
  3. Bold indicates statistically significant associations (p < 0.05)