TY - JOUR
T1 - SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Serology Testing in a 3-Month-Old Organ Donor
T2 - A Case Report and Review of Available Literature
AU - Nelson, Susan
AU - Curran, Christopher C.
AU - Sutcliffe, David Lawrence
AU - Rofaiel, George
AU - Chang, Yeh Chung
AU - Easterling, Larry
AU - Wood, R. Patrick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a highly prevalent infectious disease. Currently, organs are not being transplanted from donors who are SARS-CoV-2 positive. It remains unclear as to how to differentiate active from recovered patients. We report our recent experience of a 3-month-old deceased organ donor who died as the result of an anoxic brain injury after a cardiopulmonary arrest (presumed sudden infant death syndrome). The child was born to a mother presumed to have coronavirus disease 2019. The donor tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction and positive for SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin A antibodies. We suspect this is the first known report of its kind and noteworthy for the organ donation and transplantation community.
AB - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a highly prevalent infectious disease. Currently, organs are not being transplanted from donors who are SARS-CoV-2 positive. It remains unclear as to how to differentiate active from recovered patients. We report our recent experience of a 3-month-old deceased organ donor who died as the result of an anoxic brain injury after a cardiopulmonary arrest (presumed sudden infant death syndrome). The child was born to a mother presumed to have coronavirus disease 2019. The donor tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction and positive for SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin A antibodies. We suspect this is the first known report of its kind and noteworthy for the organ donation and transplantation community.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.transproceed.2021.06.028
DO - 10.1016/j.transproceed.2021.06.028
M3 - Article
C2 - 34301402
AN - SCOPUS:85110748824
SN - 0041-1345
VL - 53
SP - 2435
EP - 2437
JO - Transplantation proceedings
JF - Transplantation proceedings
IS - 8
ER -