Publications by authors named "Siew Cohen"
Article Synopsis
- A study of 187 hospitalized diabetes patients with COVID-19 found that those with diabetic retinopathy had over a fivefold increased risk of needing intubation.
- The findings suggest a potential link between diabetic retinopathy and severe outcomes in COVID-19 cases.
- Further research is needed to explore the underlying mechanisms connecting retinopathy and other microangiopathy factors to severe COVID-19.
End stage renal disease (ESRD) is associated with a high mortality rate among patients hospitalized with COVID-19. To the best of our knowledge, there is limited data on the clinical features, ethnicity, inpatient glycaemic control and outcomes in patients with diabetes related ESRD in the literature. We report the clinical features and outcomes of 39 consecutive ESRD patients (28 on haemodialysis [HD] and 11 with renal transplant) secondary to diabetic kidney disease admitted to a university hospital with COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with diabetes and kidney disease are at risk of diabetes-related foot ulcers (DFU). Whether this risk is modified post simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) or kidney only (KO) transplant is unknown.
Methods: We evaluated the incidence of new onset DFU post SPK and KO transplant in 235 patients with diabetic kidney disease and diabetic neuropathy.