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. 2021 Jun 7;41(8):1523–1529. doi: 10.1007/s00296-021-04914-3

Table 1.

The summary of the clinical and demographic findings, and treatment strategies of these two cases and the previously published cases of AAV with COVID-19

Case no. 1 2 Uppal et al. [15] Uppal et al. [15] Moeinzadeh et al. [16] Jalalzadeh et al. [17]
Age, years 26 36 64 46 25 46
Sex Male Female Male Male Male Female
Comorbidities None None None Diabetes mellitus None Diabetes mellitus and scleroderma
Peak SCr (mg/dL) 8.44 1.91 7.87 4.0 5.5 8.3
Serum albumin, (g/dL) 2.58 2.22 2.8 2.1 NA NA
Positive serology MPO (p-ANCA) PR3 (c-ANCA) MPO (p-ANCA) PR3 (c-ANCA) PR3 (c-ANCA) MPO (p-ANCA)
Lung involvement Subpleural and parenchymal dispersed consolidative ground-glass opacities Bilateral cavitary lesions Bilateral patchy infiltrates Resolving peripheral ground-glass opacities Alveolar hemorrhage Bilateral pleural effusions and pulmonary infiltrates
Skin pathology None None None Leukocytoclastic vasculitis None None
Kidney pathology Crescentic GN Necrotizing crescentic GN Crescentic GN Focal necrotizing GN Crescentic GN Crescentic GN
Renal replacement therapy Yes, hemodialysis No Yes, hemodialysis No No No
COVID-19 treatment Favipiravir Favipiravir Tocilizumab, convalescent plasma Hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin Hydroxychloroquine, levofloxacin, IVIG NA
AAV treatment Glucocorticoids, cyclophosphamide, plasma exchange Glucocorticoids, cyclophosphamide Glucocorticoids, rituximab Glucocorticoids, rituximab Glucocorticoids, cyclophosphamide, plasmapheresis Glucocorticoids
Antibody titers on admission MPO: 80.6 U/mL c-ANCA (1:32) MPO: 32.5 U/mL PR-3: 57.3 U/mL c-ANCA (1:50) p-ANCA > 1:1280

c-ANCA, cytoplasmic antineutrophilic autoantibody; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; GN, glomerulonephritis; IVIG; intravenous immunoglobulin; p-ANCA, perinuclear antineutrophilic autoantibody; MPO, myeloperoxidase; NA, not available; PR3, proteinase 3; sCr, serum creatinine