Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36326380›Full record

SynthesisTurkish journal of medical sciences2022

COVID-19 course in granulomatosis with polyangiitis: single center experience with review of the literature.

Berkan Armağan, Mehmet Akif Eksin, Serdar Can Güven, Bahar Özdemir, Pınar Akyüz Dağlı, Orhan Küçükşahin, Ahmet Omma, Abdulsamet Erden

Abstract readSystematic Review
In one paragraph

Synthesis in Turkish journal of medical sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Berkan ArmağanRheumatology Clinic, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Mehmet Akif EksinRheumatology Clinic, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Serdar Can GüvenRheumatology Clinic, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Bahar ÖzdemirRheumatology Clinic, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Pınar Akyüz DağlıRheumatology Clinic, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Orhan KüçükşahinDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey.
Ahmet OmmaRheumatology Clinic, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Abdulsamet ErdenRheumatology Clinic, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) shares some clinical features with new-onset granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) or GPA flare that may lead to a challenge in differential diagnosis. To date, little is known whether GPA can be induced by COVID-19. Herein, we aimed to seek the frequency and mortality rates of COVID-19 in our GPA cohort, and along with the literature cases, to evaluate clinical features and treatments of GPA patients with COVID-19. We also tried to identify clinical features of COVID-19 induced GPA.

methodsAs of July 2021, we conducted a systematic literature review using different spelling combinations of "COVID-19 and GPA" in the PUBMED database. In total, 18 cases were found in the literature, 6 of them had COVID-19 induced GPA. The remaining 12 of literature cases and 6 cases in our GPA cohort (n = 81) had a COVID-19 infection while followed-up with GPA. We grouped these 18 patients as GPA+COVID-19.

resultsThe frequency of COVID-19 was 7.4% in GPA cohort and mortality rate was 33% in GPA patients with COVID-19. The most common symptoms of GPA+COVID-19 patients were fever, cough, arthralgia/myalgia, and malaise. The most frequent treatments for GPA before the COVID-19 infection were steroids (72%) and rituximab (56%). Three patients who received rituximab also had COVID-19 reinfection. In the literature cases, mortality was observed in 4 (22%) of 18 patients with GPA+COVID-19. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 induced GPA were dyspnea, fever and cough. DISCUSSION: In our GPA cohort, we observed a higher mortality rate compared to global WHO data. In patients followed up with GPA, rituximab treatment may be precarious for both COVID-19 disease and reinfection. Our study also provided some clues about the diagnostic challenge of GPA induced by COVID-19.

Indexed as

COVID-19Granulomatosis with PolyangiitisCoughHumansReinfectionRituximabRituximabCoronavirus disease 2019granulomatosis with polyangiitisrituximabsevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Wegener’s granulomatosis

Identifiers

PMID36326380
PMCPMC10387857

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.