A multicenter study of severity and prognosis of symptomatic COVID-19 in end-stage renal disease and non-dialysis patients in East of Iran.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the severity and related factors of symptomatic COVID-19 in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients from several centers in Eastern Iran.

Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, after obtaining ethical approval, 410 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were included for analysis. Patients were categorized into two groups based on their dialysis status: the dialysis group (ESRD patients undergoing hemodialysis) and the non-dialysis group (those without chronic dialysis).

The relation between zero-time pretransplant deceased donor renal biopsy and kidney transplant survival.

Introduction: There are several investigations about preimplantation biopsy results in alive donors. However, assessment of the biopsies in deceased donors' kidney and its correlation with patient survival is limited. In this study, we evaluated the correlation between zero-time pretransplant kidney biopsy and survival of kidney in deceased donors.