“…Even if a case of collapsing glomerulopathy has been reported in COVID-19 (Gaillard et al, 2020), acute tubular necrosis (ATN) with interstitial component probably remains the main cause of kidney injury. Other factors may contribute to kidney involvement: systemic inflammation and cytokine storm (Burton and Harris, 1996;Coletta et al, 2000;Gohda et al, 2001;D'Amico and Bazzi, 2003;Imai, 2003;Thorevska et al, 2003;Mäkelä et al, 2004;Wassmann et al, 2004;Kielar et al, 2005;Abbate et al, 2006;Liu et al, 2007;Delvaeye and Conway, 2009;Murugan et al, 2010;Ranganathan et al, 2013;Darmon et al, 2014Darmon et al, , 2017Su et al, 2017;Sarhan et al, 2018;Meissner et al, 2019;Cremoni et al, 2020;Mehta et al, 2020;Pan et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2020;Siddiqi and Mehra, 2020;Tang et al, 2020;Vaninov, 2020;Zhang et al, 2020;Ruetsch et al, 2021), release of pathogenassociated molecular patterns (PAMPs), high levels of damageassociated molecular proteins (DAMPS) from lung injury and severe hypoxemic respiratory failure (Burton and Harris, 1996;Coletta et al, 2000;Gohda et al, 2001;D'Amico and Bazzi, 2003;Thorevska et al, 2003;Mäkelä et al, 2004;Wassmann et al, 2004;Kielar et al, 2005;…”