作者
Clodoveo Ferri, Dilia Giuggioli, Vincenzo Raimondo, Massimo L’andolina, Antonio Tavoni, Riccardo Cecchetti, Serena Guiducci, Francesco Ursini, Maurizio Caminiti, Giuseppe Varcasia, Pietro Gigliotti, Roberta Pellegrini, Domenico Olivo, Michele Colaci, Giuseppe Murdaca, Raffaele Brittelli, Giuseppa Pagano Mariano, Amelia Spinella, Silvia Bellando-Randone, Vincenzo Aiello, Silvia Bilia, Daiana Giannini, Tommaso Ferrari, Rodolfo Caminiti, Veronica Brusi, Riccardo Meliconi, Poupak Fallahi, Alessandro Antonelli, COVID-19 & ASD Italian Study Group
发表日期
2020/11
期刊
Clinical rheumatology
卷号
39
页码范围
3195-3204
出版商
Springer International Publishing
简介
Introduction
Covid-19 infection poses a serious challenge for immune-compromised patients with inflammatory autoimmune systemic diseases. We investigated the clinical-epidemiological findings of 1641 autoimmune systemic disease Italian patients during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Method
This observational multicenter study included 1641 unselected patients with autoimmune systemic diseases from three Italian geographical areas with different prevalence of Covid-19 [high in north (Emilia Romagna), medium in central (Tuscany), and low in south (Calabria)] by means of telephone 6-week survey. Covid-19 was classified as (1) definite diagnosis of Covid-19 disease: presence of symptomatic Covid-19 infection, confirmed by positive oral/nasopharyngeal swabs; (2) highly suspected Covid-19 disease: presence of highly suggestive symptoms, in absence of a swab test.
Results
A significantly higher …
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