E. Tannor, E. Ofori, K. Hutton-Mensah, M. Akutek, F. A. Afriyie, O. Nyarko, Y. Hardy, S. Kontoh, P. Opare-Addo, D. Amenuke
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Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is associated with high mortality, but this has not yet been described in Ghana. We therefore record here the proportion of COVID-19 patients with AKI, and determined the corresponding mortality, in a tertiary-level hospital in Ghana.