Table 4.
Hospitalized infections in the cohort of 6801 Italian patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis/severe psoriasis, or ankylosing spondylitis from 2006 to 2017, by underlying disease.
| Total | Rheumatoid arthritis (N = 3856) |
Psoriatic arthritis or severe psoriasis (N = 2139) |
Ankylosing spondylitis (N = 806) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitalized infections | 289 | 200 | 65 | 24 |
| Respiratory other than tuberculosis | 139 (45.3%) | 107 (53.5%) | 23 (35.4%) | 9 (37.5%) |
| Gastrointestinal* other than tuberculosis | 47 (16.3%) | 28 (14.0%) | 13 (20.0%) | 6 (25.0%) |
| Sepsis | 27 (9.3%) | 18 (9.0%) | 7 (10.8%) | 2 (8.3%) |
| Skin and soft tissues other than herpetic infections | 18 (6.2%) | 13 (6.5%) | 5 (7.7%) | – |
| Tuberculosis | 9 (3.1%) | 4 (2.0%) | 2 (3.1%) | 3 (12.5%) |
| Herpetic infections | 8 (2.8%) | 6 (3.0%) | 2 (3.1%) | – |
| Septic arthritis | 7 (2.4%) | 2 (1.0%) | 4 (6.1%) | 1 (4.2%) |
| Urinary tract | 7 (2.4%) | 4 (2.0%) | 2 (3.1) | 1 (4.2%) |
| Others | 27 (9.3%) | 18 (9.0%) | 7 (10.8%) | 2 (8.3%) |