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Rare Diseases and COVID-19

This section lists all rare diseases, many of which are genetic diseases, that have been connected to COVID-19 in the literature. As of today, there are 86 diseases/conditions from the list of nearly 7,000 rare diseases extracted from the NIH website that are related to COVID-19 literature or news and reports. Click on the number after each disease term to retrieve COVID-19 related articles. To obtain more information about each disease, click the link on the disease term that leads to the Rare Disease PHGKB.

• ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (1)

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (3)

• Antiphospholipid syndrome (7)

• Aortic valve stenosis (6)

• Aspergillosis (9)

• Autoimmune pancreatitis (1)

• Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (1)

• Beta-thalassemia (5)

• Bronchiolitis obliterans (1)

• Brugada syndrome (4)

• Budd-Chiari syndrome (1)

• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (1)

• Cholecystitis (6)

• Cholera (5)

• Coccidioidomycosis (1)

• Common variable immunodeficiency (2)

• Cryoglobulinemia (1)

• Cystic fibrosis (16)

• Cystinuria (1)

• Erythema multiforme (6)

• Fabry disease (1)

• Familial Mediterranean fever (1)

• Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (1)

• Gaucher disease (2)

• Gitelman syndrome (1)

• Glioma (2)

• Glomerulonephritis (13)

• Guillain-Barre syndrome (37)

• Helminthiasis (2)

• Hemophilia A (5)

• Hemosiderosis (1)

• Hydrocephalus (2)

• Hypoparathyroidism (3)

• Hypopituitarism (2)

• Lambert Eaton myasthenic syndrome (2)

• Legionellosis (2)

• Leptospirosis (1)

• Leukoplakia (1)

• Locked-in syndrome (1)

• Lupus nephritis (3)

• Macroglossia (1)

• Macrophage activation syndrome (15)

• Malaria (31)

• Marfan syndrome (1)

• Mastocytosis (1)

• Measles (18)

• Melioidosis (1)

• Miller-Fisher syndrome (6)

• Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (1)

• Multiple myeloma (14)

• Mumps (8)

• Myasthenia gravis (8)

• Mycosis fungoides (1)

• Myelitis (8)

• Myelodysplastic syndromes (3)

• Myocarditis (54)

• Myotonic dystrophy (1)

• Neuromyelitis optica (4)

• Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (2)

• Neurotoxicity syndromes (2)

• Ocular motility disorders (10)

• Onchocerciasis (1)

• Optic neuritis (4)

• Osteosarcoma (1)

• Panuveitis (1)

• Papilledema (1)

• Pemphigus (2)

• Poliomyelitis (4)

• Pseudotumor cerebri (1)

• Pulmonary arterial hypertension (3)

• Rabies (5)

• Retinoblastoma (1)

• Rubella (5)

• Scleritis (1)

• Sezary syndrome (1)

• Short bowel syndrome (1)

• Sialadenitis (1)

• Smallpox (2)

• Status epilepticus (4)

• Stevens-Johnson syndrome (1)

• Thalassemia (10)

• Tuberculosis (56)

• Typhoid fever (2)

• Uveal diseases (6)

• Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (1)

• Yellow fever (6)