Clinical course of COVID-19 infection in inflammatory rheumatological patients: a monocentric Belgian experience.

Aureliano PistoneLaure TantMuhammad S Soyfoo

Published in: Rheumatology advances in practice (2020)

A limited number of patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases suffered from COVID-19 infection. Two patients needed mechanical ventilation and survived, whereas one patient died. All patients with a severe form of infection had at least one co-morbidity.

Keyphrases

mechanical ventilation
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
acute respiratory distress syndrome
early onset
drug induced