TY - JOUR T1 - Chronic arthritis related to SARS-CoV-2 infection in a pediatric patient: A case report JO - The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases T2 - AU - Crivelenti,Luísa Rosa de Morais Palma AU - Frazão,Marina Martins Nascimento AU - Maia,Marina Paiva de Melo AU - Gomes,Francisco Hugo Rodrigues AU - de Carvalho,Luciana Martins SN - 14138670 M3 - 10.1016/j.bjid.2021.101585 DO - 10.1016/j.bjid.2021.101585 UR - https://bjid.org.br/en-chronic-arthritis-related-sars-cov-2-infection-articulo-S1413867021000544 AB - Although the pattern of proinflammatory cytokines induced in COVID-2019 is similar to that of rheumatoid arthritis, the association of arthritis with SARS-CoV-2 infection is extremely rare and the symptoms are generally acute and self-limited. Herein we present the clinical case of a child who developed chronic arthritis after SARS-CoV-2 infection. An 11-year-old girl started with symptoms of multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 infection and subsequently developed chronic arthritis. After six weeks of arthritis, corticosteroids were started which resulted in clinical improvement after two weeks of use. Serology for SARS-CoV-2 was positive in the fifth week after symptom onset. Currently, the patient has no clinical complaints but continues to experience morning stiffness, high erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and synovial hypertrophy with no power Doppler signal on ultrasound. We alert to the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 may be a trigger of chronic arthritis. ER -