Kidney Disease and COVID-19: What Are the Risks?
As scientists learn more about COVID-19, it has become clear that the virus especially impacts those with existing medical conditions, such as kidney disease.
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Kassem Safa, MD is an associate transplant nephrologist at the Transplant Center at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2015 and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from the Lebanese University School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency at the Saint Raphael Campus of the Yale New Haven Hospital. He trained in nephrology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital joint fellowship program. He completed transplant nephrology fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr Safa is the recipient of several teaching awards during residency and fellowship and has written numerous articles and book chapters; his interests include clinical transplantation and the effect of dietary habits on the immune system.
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As scientists learn more about COVID-19, it has become clear that the virus especially impacts those with existing medical conditions, such as kidney disease.