When a patient who is on medications that suppress their immune system be infected with the SARS-CoV2 virus, what will be the usual outcome?
worse outcome, but you cant determine which
Preliminary experience shows that patients with chronic arthritis treated with bDMARDs or tsDMARDs do not seem to be at increased risk of respiratory or life-threatening complications from SARS-CoV-2 compared with the general population.
Ref: https://ard.bmj.com/content/79/5/667
Dear Foad Alzoughool, thanks for your contribution.
COVID-19 has a high case-fatality rate (CFR) in transplant patients, particularly in those with long-term immunosuppressive regimens.
Article SARS-CoV-2 infection among patients with systemic autoimmune diseases
The following study reveals a higher mortality rate of COVID‐19 infection amongst hospitalized patients taking immunosuppressants.
Article Clinical characteristics and outcomes of immunosuppressed pa...
Arvind Singh
Thanks for your priced comments and the shared link. I acknowledge your valuable addition to the discussion.
Also, see the following useful link.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1488/6067567
Please have a look on the below link:
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/covid-19-outcomes-for-patients-on-immunosuppressive-drugs-on-par-with-non-immunosuppressed-patients#:~:text=People%20taking%20immunosuppressive%20drugs%20to,Bloomberg%20School%20of%20Public%20Health.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.01333/full
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