1. Myositis as a manifestation of SARS-CoV-2
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Omar Al Tabaa, Xavier Mariette, Kevin Chevalier, Elodie Rivière, Julia Herrou, Anne-Sophie Delettre, Sabrina Hamroun, Marion Thomas, Maxime Beydon, Service de Rhumatologie [CHU Bicêtre], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Bicêtre, Immunologie des maladies virales, auto-immunes, hématologiques et bactériennes (IMVA-HB), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, and Bodescot, Myriam
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0301 basic medicine ,myalgia ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Immunology ,Polymyositis ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,polymyositis ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Rheumatology ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Myositis ,[SDV.MP.VIR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,[SDV.MHEP.ME] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases ,030203 arthritis & rheumatology ,[SDV.MHEP.RSOA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Rhumatology and musculoskeletal system ,[SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases ,business.industry ,Lower limb muscle weakness ,medicine.disease ,Connective tissue disease ,3. Good health ,030104 developmental biology ,[SDV.MHEP.RSOA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Rhumatology and musculoskeletal system ,inflammation ,[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,medicine.symptom ,Airway ,business ,MRI - Abstract
We read with great interest the paper from Monti et al describing clinical course of coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in patients with chronic arthritis. We would like to emphasise that symptoms mimicking connective tissue disease can occur at the early phase of covid-19 infection.1 Despite the fact that myalgia has been already reported in several cohorts of patients with covid-19 infection,2 myositis was not described in these studies. We report a case of a MRI-documented myositis secondary to covid-19 in a patient. The patient was not under medication prior to the illness. Symptoms appeared suddenly on waking with diffuse myalgias and proximal lower limb muscle weakness, causing him to fall. On arrival at the hospital, the patient was afebrile and did not present any upper or lower airway symptoms. Motor testing revealed a bilateral hip flexion deficit graded at 3/5 on the Medical Research …
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- 2020
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