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Coronaviruses and kidney injury

6 November 2020 | | Trauma and Emergency Urology, COVID-19 - Urology News | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS virus, acute kidney injury

This is a topical review of the effects of coronaviruses on the kidney and includes a description of the mechanisms of kidney damage by SARS, MERS and COVID-19. The authors quote two previous reports which estimate the incidence of acute...