Foe and friend in the COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: an insight on intrarenal renin-angiotensin system
Since the first reported case in December of 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has became an international public health emergency.So far, there are more than 228,206,384 confirmed cases including 4,687,066 deaths.Kidney with high expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is one of the extrapulmonary target organs affected in