Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is challenging health care systems worldwide, raising the question of reducing the transplant program due to the shortage of intensive care unit beds and to the risk of infection in donors and recipients. We report the positive experience of a single Transplant Center in Rome, part of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the major national centers involved in the COVID-19 emergency.
Marzia Montalbano, Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, Ubaldo Visco Comandini, Raffaella Lionetti, Laura Vincenzi, Giammauro Berardi, Nicola Guglielmo, Adriano Pellicelli, Giuseppe Maria Ettorre, and Gianpiero ... more D'Offizi. less
POIT- INMI Spallanzani Infectious Diseases/Hepatology Unit.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Oct 9; 99 (41): e22174.
AbstractCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is challenging health care systems worldwide, raising the question of reducing the transplant program due to the shortage of intensive care unit beds and to the risk of infection in donors and recipients.We report the positive experience of a single Transplant Center in Rome, part of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the major national centers involved in the COVID-19 emergency.