Table 1.

Collateral damages of COVID-19 pandemic on kidney transplantation

(Source: Original)

Clinical care phase	COVID-19 pandemic effect
Pre-transplant care	-Increased barriers to dialysis access -Fear in the patients related to the risk of acquiring COVID-19 infection -Increased mortality on the waiting list -Decreased living-kidney donors evaluations
Transplant surgery	-Decreased availability of deceased organ donors -Decreased in the number of transplant procedures performed -Temporary close of living-kidney donors programs -Increased non-acceptance rate to KTx surgery during the pandemic
Post-transplant care	-Increased mortality in KTx affected by COVID-19 infection -Increased rates of AKI in KTx affected by COVID-19 infection -Shortage and increased barriers to immunosuppressive agent access