ReviewViruses2021
Post-COVID-19 Arthritis and Sacroiliitis: Natural History with Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Two Cases and Review of the Literature.
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- COVID-associated arthritis after severe and non-severe COVID-19: A systematic review.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2023Pooled it
- Clinical and imaging characteristics of 135 cases of infectious sacroiliitis: a retrospective cohort study in China.Clinical rheumatology · 2025Article
- COVID-19 with Suspected Secondary Pyogenic Arthritis of the Hip: A Case Report and Literature Review.Journal of orthopaedic case reports · 2024Article
- Axial spondylarthritis following COVID-19 infection.BMJ case reports · 2023Article
- Acute arthritis following SARS-CoV-2 infection: About two cases.Clinical case reports · 2023Article
- MRI Findings in Axial Psoriatic Spondylarthritis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- COVID-19-associated arthritis: an emerging new entity?RMD open · 2022Review
- Case of reactive sacroiliitis possibly induced by an mRNA coronavirus disease vaccine.BMJ case reports · 2022Article
- Postacute Sequelae of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2022Review
- Reactive arthritis before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Review
- Post-COVID-19 arthritis: is it hyperinflammation or autoimmunity?European cytokine network · 2021Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Segmentation via Weighted Level Set Model Based on Local Kernel Metric and Spatial Constraint.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2 syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) is a well-known pandemic infectious disease caused by an RNA virus belonging to the coronaviridae family. The most important involvement during the acute phase of infection concerns the respiratory tract and may be fatal. However, COVID-19 may become a systemic disease with a wide spectrum of manifestations. Herein, we report the natural history of sacroiliac inflammatory involvement in two females who developed COVID-19 infection with mild flu-like symptoms. After the infection they reported inflammatory back pain, with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies showing typical aspects of sacroiliitis. Symptoms improved with NSAIDs therapy over the following months while MRI remained positive. A literature review was performed on this emerging topic. To our knowledge, this is the first MRI longitudinal study of post-COVID-19 sacroiliitis with almost one year of follow-up. Predisposing factors for the development of articular involvement are unclear but a long-lasting persistence of the virus, demonstrated by nasopharyngeal swab, may enhance the probability of altering the immune system in a favourable background.
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