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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2023

A Case of a Malignant Lymphoma Patient Persistently Infected with SARS-CoV-2 for More than 6 Months.

Yoji Nagasaki, Masanori Kadowaki, Asako Nakamura, Yoshiki Etoh, Masatoshi Shimo, Sayoko Ishihara, Yoko Arimizu, Rena Iwamoto, Seiji Kamamuta, Hiromi Iwasaki

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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Prolonged viral pneumonia and high mortality in COVID-19 patients on anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody therapy.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yoji NagasakiDepartment of Infectious Disease, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka 8108563, Japan.
Masanori KadowakiDepartment of Hematology, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka 8108563, Japan.
Asako NakamuraFukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, Fukuoka 8180135, Japan.
Yoshiki EtohFukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, Fukuoka 8180135, Japan.
Masatoshi ShimoDepartment of Hematology, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka 8108563, Japan.
Sayoko IshiharaDepartment of Infectious Disease, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka 8108563, Japan.
Yoko ArimizuDepartment of Infectious Disease, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka 8108563, Japan.
Rena IwamotoDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka 8108563, Japan.
Seiji KamamutaDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka 8108563, Japan.
Hiromi IwasakiDepartment of Hematology, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka 8108563, Japan.
National Kyushu Medical Center · JPFukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2). There are many unknowns regarding the handling of long-term SARS-CoV-2 infections in immunocompromised patients. Here, we describe the lethal disease course in a SARS-CoV-2-infected patient during Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy. We performed whole-genome analysis using samples obtained during the course of the disease in a 63-year-old woman who was diagnosed with intraocular malignant lymphoma of the right eye in 2012. She had received treatment since the diagnosis. An autologous transplant was performed in 2020, but she experienced a worsening of the primary disease 26 days before she was diagnosed with a positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR. Tirabrutinib was administered for the primary disease. A cluster of COVID-19 infections occurred in the hematological ward while the patient was hospitalized, and she became infected on day 0. During the course of the disease, she experienced repeated remission exacerbations of COVID-19 pneumonia and eventually died on day 204. SARS-CoV-2 whole-viral sequencing revealed that the patient shed the virus long-term. Viral infectivity studies confirmed infectious virus on day 189, suggesting that the patient might be still infectious. This case report describes the duration and viral genetic evaluation of a patient with malignant lymphoma who developed SARS-CoV-2 infection during Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy and in whom the infection persisted for over 6 months.

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COVID-19LymphomaFemaleHumansMiddle AgedSARS-CoV-2Bruton’s tyrosine kinaseimmunocompromised hostpersistent infectionSARS-CoV-2

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PMID36676732
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