COVID-19 : a primer for the rheumatologist: management of patients and care settings

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: There are currently many unanswered questions surrounding the management of patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic and several 'rapid' guidelines have been released, although are subject to be updated and changed in the near future. The purpose of this review is to discuss the approach to management of patients with immune-mediated diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic.

RECENT FINDINGS: At present, there is little evidence to suggest an increased risk of COVID-19 infection or its complications in patients with immune-mediated diseases or associated with conventional or biologic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs; however, glucocorticoid use does appear to have negative associations.

SUMMARY: Currently, conventional and biologic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs can be continued in the absence of SARS-CoV-2 exposure. In the case of exposure, with the exception of hydroxyhcloroquine and sulfasalazine, immunosuppression should be held for 2 weeks. Our recommendations and the guidelines we discuss here are based on C-level recommendations but help provide a framework for how to counsel our patients during this pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Current opinion in rheumatology - 32(2020), 5 vom: 05. Sept., Seite 429-433

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Calabrese, Cassandra [VerfasserIn]
Lehman, Bethany [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antirheumatic Agents
Journal Article
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 17.08.2020

Date Revised 04.12.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1097/BOR.0000000000000732

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313201560