Clovis Artur Silva, Leonard de Vinci Kanda Kupa, Ana Cristina Medeiros-Ribeiro, Sandra Gofinet Pasoto, Carla Gonçalves Schahin Saad, Emily Figueiredo Neves Yuki, Joaquim Ivo Vasques Dantas Landim, Victor Hugo Ferreira E Léda, Luisa Sacchi de Camargo Correia, Artur Fonseca Sartori, Carolina Campagnoli Machado Freire Martins, Carolina Torres Ribeiro, Filipe Waridel, Victor Adriano de Oliveira Martins, Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo, Danieli Castro Oliveira Andrade, Percival Degrava Sampaio Barros, Eduardo Ferreira Borba Neto, Nadia Emi Aikawa, Eloisa Bonfa
BACKGROUND: Data on post-acute COVID-19 in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) are scarce, focusing on a single disease, with variable definitions of this condition and time of vaccination. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency and pattern of post-acute COVID-19 in vaccinated patients with ARD using established diagnosis criteria. METHODS: Retrospective evaluation of a prospective cohort of 108 ARD patients and 32 non-ARD controls, diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection (RT-PCR/antigen test) after the third dose of the CoronaVac vaccine...
June 8, 2023: Advances in Rheumatology