AUTHOR=Teixeira Júnior Antonio Augusto Lima , Neves Precil Diego Miranda de Menezes , Lages Joyce Santos , Cunha Kaile de Araújo , Muniz Monique Pereira Rêgo , Brito Dyego José de Araújo , Watanabe Andréia , Watanabe Elieser Hitoshi , Onuchic Luiz Fernando , Nunes Lucas Lobato Acatauassu , Coutinho Filho Antônio Fernando , Barcelos Flávia Lara , Gatto Giuseppe Cesare , Monteiro Antonio , Polido Diego do Amaral , Motta Douglas Rafanelle Moura de Santana , Leite Thaísa de Oliveira , Guedes Felipe Leite , Gomes Orlando Vieira , Valente Lucila Maria , Israel Karla Cristina Silva Petruccelli , Ladchumananandasivam Francisco Rasiah , de Farias Lígia Cristina Lopes , Marques Igor Denizarde Bacelar , Uliano Gustavo Lemos , Maramaldo Carlos Eduardo Campos , Neto Lídio Gonçalves Lima , Luchi Weverton Machado , Wanderley David Campos , Araújo Stanley de Almeida , Salgado Filho Natalino , Silva Gyl Eanes Barros TITLE=Brazilian Consortium for the Study on Renal Diseases Associated With COVID-19: A Multicentric Effort to Understand SARS-CoV-2-Related Nephropathy JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine VOLUME=7 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.584235 DOI=10.3389/fmed.2020.584235 ISSN=2296-858X ABSTRACT=
Kidney involvement appears to be frequent in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Despite this, information concerning renal involvement in COVID-19 is still scarce. Several mechanisms appear to be involved in the complex relationship between the virus and the kidney. Also, different morphological patterns have been described in the kidneys of patients with COVID-19. For some authors, however, this association may be just a coincidence. To investigate this issue, we propose assessing renal morphology associated with COVID-19 at the renal pathology reference center of federal university hospitals in Brazil. Data will come from a consortium involving 17 federal university hospitals belonging to