Broad clinical spectrum of SARS-CoV-2-associated inflammatory joint disease in adults: a report of 35 cases from the COVID-19 & Autoimmune Systemic Disease Italian study group

Francesco Ursini; Piero Ruscitti; Salvatore D'Angelo; Fabio Cacciapaglia; Rossella De Angelis; Corrado Campochiaro; Francesco Caso; Maria De Santis; Ilenia Di Cola; Simone Parisi; Vincenzo Raimondo; Giuseppina Abignano; Luisa Costa; Jacopo Ciaffi; Lorenzo Dagna; Annamaria Iagnocco; Florenzo Iannone; Riccardo Meliconi; Roberto Giacomelli; Clodoveo Ferri

doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220606

Broad clinical spectrum of SARS-CoV-2-associated inflammatory joint disease in adults: a report of 35 cases from the COVID-19 & Autoimmune Systemic Disease Italian study group

Ann Rheum Dis. 2021 Nov;80(11):1498-1501. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220606. Epub 2021 May 26.

Authors

Francesco Ursini^{1

2}, Piero Ruscitti³, Salvatore D'Angelo⁴, Fabio Cacciapaglia⁵, Rossella De Angelis⁶, Corrado Campochiaro⁷, Francesco Caso⁸, Maria De Santis⁹, Ilenia Di Cola³, Simone Parisi¹⁰, Vincenzo Raimondo¹¹, Giuseppina Abignano⁴, Luisa Costa⁸, Jacopo Ciaffi¹, Lorenzo Dagna⁷, Annamaria Iagnocco¹², Florenzo Iannone¹³, Riccardo Meliconi^{1

2}, Roberto Giacomelli¹⁴, Clodoveo Ferri^{15

16}

Affiliations

¹ Medicine & Rheumatology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy.
² Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
³ Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, L'Aquila, Italy.
⁴ Rheumatology Institute of Lucania (IReL) and Rheumatology Department of Lucania, Regional Hospital San Carlo, Potenza, Italy.
⁵ Rheumatology Unit, Department of Emergence Medicine and Transplantation (DETO), Università degli Studi di Bari Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Bari, Italy.
⁶ Rheumatology Clinic, Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche School of Medicine and Surgery, Ancona, Italy.
⁷ Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases (UnIRAR), IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy.
⁸ Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University Hospital, Napoli, Italy.
⁹ Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Italy.
¹⁰ Rheumatology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy.
¹¹ Rheumatology Unit, Rheumatology Hospital "Madonna dello Scoglio", Cotronei, Italy.
¹² Academic Rheumatology Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
¹³ Rheumatology Unit, Department of Emergency Medicine and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
¹⁴ Rheumatology and Immunology Unit, Department of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University, Roma, Italy.
¹⁵ Rheumatology Unit, Rheumatology Hospital "Madonna dello Scoglio", Cotronei, Italy clferri@unimore.it.
¹⁶ Rheumatology Unit, School of Medicine, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Modena, Italy.

PMID: 34039622
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220606

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; arthritis; infectious; reactive; rheumatoid.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Arthritis / epidemiology*
Arthritis / virology*
COVID-19 / complications*
Female
Humans
Italy
Male
Middle Aged
SARS-CoV-2