New-onset Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis Post-mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine: A Case Report

Abstract

Growing evidence in the medical literature has linked the COVID-19 vaccine as a potential trigger for the development or exacerbation of various autoimmune rheumatic diseases. To the best of our knowledge, we report one of the first cases of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed after the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine.

Keywords

• anti-citrullinated protein antibodies
• covid-19
• covid-19 vaccines
• rna
• messenger
• arthritis
• rheumatoid