Abstracts tagged "Clinical outcomes"

Abstract Number: 1555 • ACR Convergence 2021
Clinical Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) in Hospitalized Patients with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMD)
Ikwinder Kaur¹, Mohsin Mughal², Abdul Asbeutah³, Mili Kakadia², Reem Alhashemi⁴, Hasan Mirza⁵, Harjot Jagdey⁶, Rasha Alhashimi⁷, vishakha sirpal², Punit Jariwala² and Eugenio Capitle⁸, ¹Monmouth Medical Center, an affiliate of Rutgers health system, Long Branch, NJ, ²Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ, ³University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ⁴Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ, ⁵Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA, ⁶BronxCare Hospital, Bronx, NY, ⁷BIDMC, Havard, Boston, MA, ⁸Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Background/Purpose: COVID-19 has been implicated in an exaggerated inflammatory response by activating both innate and adaptive immune responses. Rheumatic disease patients are a vulnerable population…