Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced access to solid organ transplantation, compounding organ shortages and waitlist mortality. A continued area of uncertainty is the safety of transplanting organs recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infected donors, as autopsies of patients who died with COVID-19 show that the virus can be found in extra-pulmonary organs. Case reports and series on transplantation of these organs have been published, but population-level data is lacking.
We queried a national transplant database for rec… Show more
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