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. 2020 Jun 23;33(4):e13639. doi: 10.1111/dth.13639

TABLE 2.

Summary of literature regarding patients on chemotherapeutic/immunosuppressive/imunomodulatory medications who developed COVID‐19

Rheumatology
Authors Patient profile Drugs Outcome of COVID‐19
Monti et al 63

Chronic arthritis

RA‐3,

SpondyloArthritis (SpA)‐1

Methotrexate: 2

Leflunomide: 1

Etanercept: 2

Abatacept: 1

Low dose steroids: 2

(<5 mg/day prednisolone equivalent)

Tofacitinib: 1

Hospital admission required: 1
Oncology
Authors Patient profile (patients on active treatment for cancer at the time of COVID diagnosis) Drugs Outcome of COVID‐19
Liang et al 64

Four—Lung adenocarcinoma

One—Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma

One—Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma

(age range: 47‐63 years)

Two on chemotherapy for advanced cancer

Two on targeted therapy

One on TSH inhibition therapy

One—recurrence, on immunotherapy

(further details not mentioned)

Severe disease in two of six (one on chemotherapeutic drugs and one on immunotherapy)

(Ages: 58 and 63 years)

Yu et al 65 Five patients of non‐small cell lung cancer Combinations of: Carboplatin, Pembrolizumab, Pemetrexed, Docetaxel, Cisplatin, Osimertinib, Sintilimab

Severe disease—one (on pemetrexed, cisplatin, and radiotherapy)

(Age not mentioned)

Transplant recipients
Authors Patient profile Drugs Outcome of COVID‐19
Gandolfini et al 66 Two renal transplant recipients (75 and 52 years of age)

Tacrolimus

Mycophenolate mofetil

Steroids

Survived—One

Died—One

Huang et al 67 One renal transplant patient (58 years of age)

Mycophenolate mofetil

Steroids

Died
One Bone marrow transplant recipient (51 years of age) Ciclosporine Died