Relation between insulin growth factor 1 and survival after SARS-CoV-2(COVID 19) infection in elderly kidney transplant recipients.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Soliman, Amin Roshdy; Sadek, Khaled Marzouk
- Source
- Renal Failure. Dec 2021, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p388-390. 3p. 2 Charts.
- Subject
- *COVID-19
*KIDNEY transplantation
*SARS-CoV-2
*SOMATOMEDIN
*OLDER people
- Language
- ISSN
- 0886-022X
Dear Editor, We report our work on the association of two important biomarkers (serum Insulin-like growth factor -1(IGF-1) and human growth hormone (HGH) with adverse outcomes in kidney transplant recipients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections. Higher HGH in patients who did not survive SARS-CoV-2 may support previously published findings of HGH resistance in ARDS [[3]]. HGH was higher in those patients recovering from (SARS-CoV-2) than in the non-survivors in Group 2 (patients with cardiac dysfunction) after getting infection (P value 0.19) (Table 2). [Extracted from the article]