Via practica 5/2022

COVID-19 kidney damage

The acute respiratory disease COVID-19, whose spread from the Chinese province of Wuhan in December 2019 caused a pandemic, required an enormous global effort and was a test not only of healthcare, but also of the social, social and economic preparedness of individual companies to face a pandemic of a global nature. Although the respiratory system was dominantly affected, the disease, as we already know, leads to multi-organ damage. Kidney damage from a COVID-19 infection is not rare. The etiology of kidney damage is multifactorial and leads to different forms of kidney damage, either proven or hypothesized. It is knowledge of pathophysiology and molecular mechanisms that can improve therapeutic management and design effective treatment in order to minimize post-covid kidney damage.

Keywords: COVID-19 infection, coronavirus, kidneys, acute kidney injury