COVID-19 among Hospitalized Patients with Kidney Disease: Experience at a U.S. Midwestern Academic Medical Center.

Unlabelled: We sought to characterize the clinical profiles and outcomes of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 and comorbid kidney disease hospitalized at urban, Midwestern tertiary care hospital.

Material And Methods: In this single-center observational study, we describe 205 patients with acute kidney injury (n=98), dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease stage 5 (n=54), or kidney transplant (n=53), admitted during the first surge of the local pandemic from March 19 2020, to July 31 2021.

Results: Most patients in the cohort were African American (acute kidney injury, 51%; dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease stage 5, 82%; kidney transplant, 62%), and obesity was common (acute kidney injury, 53%; dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease stage 5, 44%; kidney transplant 56%).