{"title":"Increased SARS-CoV-2-related hospitalization and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving rituximab therapy-a monocentric retrospective study.","authors":"Chrong-Reen Wang, Chih-Hui Hsu, Wei-Chieh Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.jmii.2025.01.004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From 2022 April to 2024 August, retrospective analyses by multivariable logistic regression were conducted in 341 rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving rituximab (RTX), tofacitinib (TOF) or disease-modifying-anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) alone therapy. Compared to DMARD alone or TOF treatment, RTX therapy had increased adjusted odds ratios of SARS-CoV-2-related hospitalization, pneumonia and mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":56117,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2025.01.004","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"IMMUNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
From 2022 April to 2024 August, retrospective analyses by multivariable logistic regression were conducted in 341 rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving rituximab (RTX), tofacitinib (TOF) or disease-modifying-anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) alone therapy. Compared to DMARD alone or TOF treatment, RTX therapy had increased adjusted odds ratios of SARS-CoV-2-related hospitalization, pneumonia and mortality.
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