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COVID-19 and Behçet’s disease: clinical case series
  1. Gerard Espinosa1,
  2. Olga Araujo2,
  3. Sergi Amaro3,
  4. Marta Bodro4,
  5. Pedro Juan Moreno5,
  6. Reinaldo Moreno6,
  7. Ainoa Ugarte5,
  8. R Cervera7
  1. 1 Autoimmune Diseases, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  2. 2 Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  3. 3 Neurology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  4. 4 Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  5. 5 Internal Medicine, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  6. 6 Medical Oncology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  7. 7 Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gerard Espinosa, Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona 08036, Spain; gespino{at}clinic.cat

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217778

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    We read with interest the study of Monti et al,1 the first rheumatic disease cases with COVID-19. In detail, the authors described the clinical course of COVID-19 in a series of 11 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, one with psoriatic arthritis and one with spondyloarthritis treated with immunosuppressive targeted therapies. Here, we describe the main characteristics of four patients with Behçet’s disease (BD) with COVID-19.

    Data on patients with systemic autoimmune diseases with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are currently lacking. Data from the first 110 patients included in the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)–COVID-19 Database have been recently published.2

    Here we describe, to our knowledge, the first single-centre experience of COVID-19 in patients who fulfilled the international criteria for BD,3 including clinical characteristics, antiviral and immunomodulatory treatment, and outcomes. All patients gave informed consent for publishing their clinical data. We used nasopharyngeal swab samples for all diagnoses, amplifying …

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    • Contributors All authors contributed to one or more of the following aspects of the paper: conception, acquisition of data, drafting and revising the article.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were involved in the design, conduct, reporting or dissemination plans of this research. Refer to the Methods section for further details.

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.