Joint Manifestations Following COVID-19 Infection- A Case Series of Six Patients
Published: April 1, 2022 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2022/51552.16192
Jyothi Visalakshy, Thomas George, Sekhar V Easwar
1. Associate Professor, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita Nagar, Edappally,
Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India.
2. Senior Resident, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita Nagar, Edappally,
Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India.
3. Physician Assistant, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita Nagar,
Edappally, Ponekkara, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Correspondence
Thomas George,
Amrita Nagar, Edappally, Kochi, Kerala, India.
E-mail: thomasg@aims.amrita.edu
A rare subset of Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) positive patients has musculoskeletal manifestations including arthritis, arthralgia, myalgia and non specific bodyaches. Moreover, postviral Reactive Arthritis (ReA) has been reported following COVID-19 infection. This article reports the characteristic joint manifestations of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in 6 out of 211 consecutive patients with laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 and treated at dedicated hospital. One 49-year-old female patient developed arthritis while having active COVID-19 infection, one 54-year-old male had post COVID-19 ReA, and one 48-year-old female was found to have undifferentiated arthritis. One 58-year-old female patient was initially thought to have ReA the diagnosis was reconsidered later when her symptoms resolved without any disease modifying agents. Two patients 37-year-old male and 63-year-old female, developed arthralgia following COVID-19 infection. Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) and steroids were found to be beneficial in the series of patients. The key point to be noted is that not all arthritis or arthralgia following COVID-19 is ReA.
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