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Cuba investigates kidney sequelae in patients infected by COVID-19
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The study of chronic kidney disease in patients infected with the new coronavirus focuses the research COVID-19: risk, damage and sequelae, under the tutelage of the Abelardo Buch López Institute of Nephrology of Cuba, in which a multidisciplinary group with more than 40 specialists, including those from the Salvador Allende clinical, surgical and teaching hospital in the capital. Dr. Raúl Herrera Valdés, leader of the investigation, points out, according to the Granma newspaper, that the investigation is based on international information, which indicates indications of kidney alterations in active patients, which lead to an acute kidney disease, in need of treatment substitute.

At the discretion of the also tenured professor, the virus uses the bloodstream for its propagation: «The kidney is one of the most vascularized in the body, since the blood crosses through the kidney and the kidney manufactures that bloodstream, that is, it filters it, concentrates it, for the production of urine. “On the other hand, the kidney is one of the organs that contains the highest quantity of the receptor for the COVID-19 virus.

And in addition, there are other general elements that concur in a multi-organic failure that affects the organism with damage also to the kidney such as infections, nephrotoxic drugs, states of arterial hypotension, muscle damage, the release of harmful proteins and other factors, “said Dr. Herrera Valdés, a nephrologist with 48 years in the profession.

Survivors of COVID-19 can maintain a low-level chronic inflammatory state, classified as subclinical, which can favor the development of non-communicable chronic diseases, not only kidney, but also cardiovascular, brainvascular, etc. For all these reasons, the follow-up of patients infected with the virus in the future and the real possibility of providing adequate treatment for them is a concern. Based on the above, an investigation is under way with a sample of asymptomatic, mild, severe, critical and deceased patients.

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