Infection with the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) virus causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The disease is primarily a pulmonary disease but with multisystem
(extra-pulmonary) manifestations, of which the kidneys are involved. Affection
of the kidney is caused by the direct invasion of the virus or as a consequence
of the immunological response to the presence of the virus. The resultant
manifestation could range from an asymptomatic proteinuria to an acute kidney
injury requiring kidney replacement therapy. The presence of kidney dysfunction
in COVID-19 increases the severity of the disease and the risk of mortality.
Author(s)
Details:
Abdul-Karim
Olayinka Shitu
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical
Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,
Ogbomoso, Nigeria.
Daniel
Gilbert Uchendu
Department of Internal Medicine, Jos University
Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
Please see the book here: https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-81-973195-5-6/CH12
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