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ArticleMediterranean journal of rheumatology2022

Anti-Rheumatic Drugs May Ameliorate the Clinical Course and Outcome of COVID-19 In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.

Eleftherios Pelechas, Vassiliki Drossou, Paraskevi V Voulgari, Alexandros A Drosos

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Article in Mediterranean journal of rheumatology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. SARS-CoV-2 Infection-Induced Necrotising Sarcoid Granulomatosis.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eleftherios PelechasRheumatology Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
Vassiliki DrossouRheumatology Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
Paraskevi V VoulgariRheumatology Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
Alexandros A DrososRheumatology Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
University of Ioannina · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current data demonstrated that in patients with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), there is a dysregulation of the immune system during the severe form of the disease. This dysregulation is expressed with an uncontrolled release of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-6, IL-17, tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFa) and chemokines, associated with increased serum ferritin levels and other acute phase reactants. On the other side, these cytokines play a pivotal role in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD), mostly in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the spondyloarthropathies. Patients affected with ARD represent a particular vulnerable group, considering that they may be in an immunocompromised status due to their ailment and its treatment on one side, but on the other side, they may be protected from their immunosuppressive therapy. To this end, we present five patients with RA treated with conventional synthetic (cs) disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologic (b) DMARDs who were affected from COVID-19 and we will try to give answers to the above hypothesis.

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bDMARDsCOVID-19csDMARDshydroxychloroquinerheumatoid arthritistocilizumab

Identifiers

PMID35611100
PMCPMC9092100
OpenAlexW4226309213

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