The first reactive arthritis case associated with COVID‐19

Reactive Arthritis After COVID-19 Infection

“…A literature review revealed the description of four cases of ReA after COVID-19, which further supported the diagnosis. The four patients were in different age groups and had varied comorbidities, disease courses, as well as presentations in the joints of the upper and lower extremities [9][10][11][12].…”

First flare of ACPA-positive rheumatoid arthritis after SARS-CoV-2 infection

“…A case of a transient oligoarthritis of the feet that developed after a SARSCoV2 infection has been pre viously reported. 5 This case occurred in a patient with HLAB27, with no evidence for hyperuricaemia, and neither rheumatoid factor nor ACPAs were present in their serum. 5 A case of ACPApositive rheumatoid arthritis has previously been described after SARSCoV2 infection, but those authors did not measure autoantibody levels before the onset of symptomatic arthritis.…”

Reactive Arthritis: Update

“…Because of a typical pattern of clinical presentation of arthritis and the evidence of COVID-19 infection in the preceding 2 weeks, the patient was diagnosed with ReA caused by COVID-19. After NSAID treatment, the symptoms of arthritis were completely resolved [63].…”

“…Since December 2019, the pandemic caused by COVID-19 raises a real public health problem [62]. In the course of time, clinicians worldwide experienced several different forms of COVID-19 [63].…”

“…It was a 73-year-old man with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary heart disease, presented to emergency department with a history of fever, weakness, and dry cough for 1 week. Nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs were positive for COVID-19 [63].…”