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Covid-19 increases the risk of kidney failure

2020-08-18T15:28:14.861Z


Covid-19 can damage not only the lungs, but other organs as well. Coronaviruses often spread to the kidneys. This increases the risk of kidney failure. This is shown by a study by the Eppendorf University Hospital.


Covid-19 can damage not only the lungs, but other organs as well. Coronaviruses often spread to the kidneys. This increases the risk of kidney failure. This is shown by a study by the Eppendorf University Hospital.

Hamburg (dpa) - According to a Hamburg study, the corona virus can also affect the kidneys of patients and significantly increase the risk of mortality.

Doctors at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) examined the kidneys of 63, mostly elderly, patients who died of Covid-19, the clinic announced.

The researchers found the Sars-CoV-2 virus in the organ in 60 percent of them. The team was also able to show that detection of coronaviruses in the kidneys was associated with an increased risk of acute kidney failure. In patients who had suffered acute kidney failure before they died, the kidneys were affected in 72 percent of the cases, in the remaining 43 percent.

"This is an explanatory approach for the frequent kidney failure in a Covid-19 infection, which is one of the main mortality factors," said study director and director of the III. Medical Clinic and Polyclinic at the UKE, Tobias Huber. The research team also succeeded in isolating the pathogen from the kidneys of a deceased person. The virus multiplied 1,000 times in kidney cells within 48 hours. "Our results indicate that the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen can also actively multiply in organs other than the lungs," explained the co-director of the study and director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, Martin Aepfelbacher.

It was previously known that the coronavirus can affect other organs in addition to the lungs, such as the heart. The researchers suggested paying attention to organ involvement at an early stage when treating corona patients. "In the case of the kidney, this is possible through urine tests," said Huber. The physicians published their findings in the British specialist magazine "The Lancet".

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