ArticleReumatologia clinica2023
Does post-COVID reactive arthritis exist? Experience of a tertiary care centre with a review of the literature.
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- Bone Mineral Density, Bone Biomarkers, and Joints in Acute, Post, and Long COVID-19: A Systematic Review.Viruses · 2024Pooled it
- COVID-associated arthritis after severe and non-severe COVID-19: A systematic review.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2023Pooled it
- Reactive arthritis following COVID-19 current evidence, diagnosis, and management strategies.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023Pooled it
- COVID-19-Induced Rheumatoid Arthritis: Case Series and Systematic Review of the Literature.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2024Article
- Musculoskeletal and Neuropathic Pain in COVID-19.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Infection, Dysbiosis and Inflammation Interplay in the COVID Era in Children.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Reactive arthritis following COVID-19: cause for concern.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Prognostic Role of Clinical Features of Moderate Forms of COVID-19 Requiring Hospitalization.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Editorial: Impact and consequences of COVID-19 on the musculoskeletal system.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Phenotyping Post-COVID Pain as a Nociceptive, Neuropathic, or Nociplastic Pain Condition.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Complement Regulation in Immortalized Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes and Primary Human Endothelial Cells in Response to SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine TNFα.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Patterns of Viral Arthropathy and Myalgia Following COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional National Survey.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: Rheumatological manifestations following COVID-19 are various, including Reactive Arthritis (ReA), which is a form of asymmetric oligoarthritis mainly involving the lower limbs, with or without extra-articular features. The current case series describes the clinical profile and treatment outcome of 23 patients with post-COVID-19 ReA. Methods: A retrospective, observational study of patients with post-COVID-19 arthritis over one year was conducted at a tertiary care centre in India. Patients ( Results: Sixteen out of 23 patients were female. The mean age of the patients was 42.8 years. Nineteen patients had had symptomatic COVID-19 infection in the past. The duration between onset of COVID-19 symptoms and arthritis ranged from 5 to 52 days with a mean of 25.9 days. The knee was the most involved joint (16 out of 23 cases). Seven patients had inflammatory lower back pain and nine had enthesitis. Most patients were treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and steroids - either depot injection or a short oral course. Three patients required treatment with hydroxychloroquine and methotrexate which were eventually stopped. No relapse was reported in any of the patients. Conclusion: On combining our data with 21 other case reports of ReA, a lower limb predominant, oligoarticular, asymmetric pattern of arthritis was seen with a female preponderance. The mean number of joints involved was 2.8. Axial symptoms and enthesitis were often coexistent. Treatment with NSAIDs and intra-articular steroids was effective. However, whether COVID-19 was the definitive aetiology of the arthritis is yet to be proven.
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