Clinical characteristics of 17 patients with COVID-19 and systemic autoimmune diseases: a retrospective study
Yao Huang, Zhe Chen, Yu Wang, Liang Han, Kai Qin, Wenya Huang, Ying Huang, Hui Wang, Pan Shen, Xin Ba, Weiji Lin, Hui Dong, Mingmin Zhang, Professor Shenghao Tu
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217425
What is already known about this subject? ► On 12 March, WHO declared COVID-19 could be characterised as a pandemic. Till 22 April, more than 2.5 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide. ► Increasing data about COVID-19 based on the general population has been reported. However, little published works were found about COVID-19 in disease-specific groups. What does this study add? ► We analysed the epidemiology of 1255 inpatients with COVID-19 who were admitted to Wuhan Tongji Hospital. Additional 17 patients with systemic autoimmune diseases (AIDs) were further screened, the demographic characteristics, epidemiological history, comorbidities, clinical symptoms or signs on admission, chest CT findings, laboratory results on admission, therapies that were prescribed for COVID-19 as well as AIDs, and clinical outcomes were reported. The detailed information of patients with systemic AIDs was investigated.
Competing interests none declared. Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting or dissemination plans of this research.
Patient consent for publication not required. Ethics approval This study was approved by the ethics Commission of Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of science and Technology (TJ-iRB20200365). Written informed consent was waived by Tongji Hospital for emerging infectious diseases and the urgent need to collect data. Provenance and peer review not commissioned; externally peer reviewed. data availability statement Data are available upon reasonable request by email to shtu@ tjh. tjmu. edu. cn. This article is made freely available for use in accordance with BMJ's website terms and conditions for the duration of the covid-19 pandemic or until otherwise determined by BMJ. You may use, download and print the article for any lawful, on January 16, 2022 by guest. Protected by copyright. http://ard.bmj.com/
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'abstract': '<jats:sec><jats:title>Objectives</jats:title><jats:p>Increasing data about COVID-19 have been '
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'living in Wuhan and two family clusters were found. 1 (5.9%) patient was admitted to ICU and '
'one died. 10 (62.5%) of 16 patients changed or stopped their anti-AIDs treatments during '
'hospitalisation, and 5 of them felt that the disease had worsened after the '
'quarantine.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>Older '
'males with chronic comorbidities are more vulnerable to severe COVID-19. The lower proportion '
'of COVID-19 in patients with systemic AIDs needs more high-quality human clinical trials and '
'in-depth mechanism researches. Of note, the withdrawal of anti-AIDs treatments during '
'hospitalisation can lead to flares of diseases.</jats:p></jats:sec>',
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