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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Case report: Treatment of long COVID with a SARS-CoV-2 antiviral and IL-6 blockade in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and SARS-CoV-2 antigen persistence.

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2022


Front Med (Lausanne)


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36213654?dopt=Abstract


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Case report: Treatment of long COVID with a SARS-CoV-2 antiviral and IL-6 blockade in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and SARS-CoV-2 antigen persistence.

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Case report: Treatment of long COVID with a SARS-CoV-2 antiviral and IL-6 blockade in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and SARS-CoV-2 antigen persistence.
Visvabharathy L, Orban ZS, Koralnik IJ
Front Med (Lausanne). 2022; 9:1003103.
PMID: 36213654.

Abstract

Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) in ∼30% of all infected individuals. Here, we present a case of PASC in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis characterized by viral persistence in the nasopharynx for 6 months after acute infection. We demonstrate transient disappearance of antigen persistence and decreased antiviral and autoimmune T cell responses after nirmatrelvir/ritonavir and tocilizumab treatment.
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