COVID-19: An Emerging Culprit of Inflammatory Arthritis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

COVID-19: An Emerging Culprit of Inflammatory Arthritis

Published:2021-04-26 Issue: Volume:2021 Page:1-8
ISSN:2090-6897
Container-title:Case Reports in Rheumatology
language:en
Short-container-title:Case Reports in Rheumatology

Author:

Mukarram Muhammad Shariq¹^ORCID,Ishaq Ghauri Muhammad¹^ORCID,Sethar Sehrish¹^ORCID,Afsar Nasir¹^ORCID,Riaz Amir²^ORCID,Ishaq Khizra¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Internal Medicine, Jinnah Medical College Hospital, Street 6, Sector 7-A, Korangi Industrial Area, Karachi, Pakistan

2. Department of Medicine, Liaqat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Abstract

Arthralgia is one of the most common symptoms that occur in patients with COVID-19. About 15% of patients present with arthralgia at some point. Although COVID-19 seems to attack the musculoskeletal system (muscles and joints) in its infective and postinfective stage causing inflammatory arthritis, not much is known about the rheumatic manifestations of this infection. In this case series of 5 patients, we discuss the occurrence of bilaterally symmetrical polyarthritis in patients, previously free from any rheumatic disease, after encountering COVID-19 infection. The musculoskeletal manifestations in these patients phenotypically resembled rheumatoid arthritis. These patients were treated successfully with low-dose glucocorticoids and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Link

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/crirh/2021/6610340.pdf

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