COVID-19 nephropathy: what could pathologist say?

Francesco Fortarezza; Federica Pezzuto

doi:10.34172/jnp.2020.32

J Nephropathol. 2020;9(4): e32.
doi: 10.34172/jnp.2020.32

Scopus ID: 85085290133

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Epidemiology and Prevention

COVID-19 nephropathy: what could pathologist say?

Francesco Fortarezza ¹^* , Federica Pezzuto ¹

¹ Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Division of Pathology, University of Padova, Italy

*Corresponding Author: *Corresponding author: Francesco Fortarezza, E-mail; francescofortarezza.md@gmail.com,, Email: federica.pezzuto@phd.unipd.it

Keywords: COVID-19 nephropathy, SARS-related coronavirus, Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:

The pathogenetic mechanism of renal involvement in coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is still unclear. It is supposed to result from a combination of several contributing factors, such as state of dehydration, leading to pre-renal failure with acute tubular necrosis, toxic tubular damage, induced by cytokine storm or rhabdomyolysis, cytopathic action induced by the virus that invades ACE2- expressing kidney cells and drug-induced nephrotoxicity.

Please cite this paper as: Fortarezza F, Pezzuto F. COVID-19 nephropathy: what could pathologist say? J Nephropathol. 2020;9(4):e32. DOI: 10.34172/jnp.2020.32.