Post-COVID-19 arthritis: a case report and literature review.
Clin Rheumatol
; 40(8): 3357-3362, 2021 Aug.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1081695
ABSTRACT
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) is the novel pathogen responsible for the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) outbreak. Researchers and clinicians are exploring the pathogenetic mechanisms of the viral-induced damage and growing interest is focusing on the short-term and long-term immune-mediated consequences triggered by the infection. We will focus on post-SARS-CoV2 infection arthritis which may arise as a new pathological condition associated with COVID-19. In this article, we describe a case of acute oligoarthritis occurring 13 days after a SARS-CoV2 severe pneumonia in a middle-aged Caucasian man and we go over a brief review of the current available literature. We hypothesize that molecular mimicry might be the basic immunological mechanism responsible for the onset of COVID-19-related arthritis based on the current knowledge of SARS-CoV2 and on the known pathogenetic mechanism of viral-induced arthritis.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Arthritis
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Case report
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Reviews
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Clin Rheumatol
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S10067-020-05550-1
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