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Artigo Favorable outcome of COVID-19 in a young woman with severe Crohn’s disease on regular use of adalimumab and prednisone: a case report(Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 2020) Vechi, Hareton Teixeira; Maia, Lucas Rodrigues; Alves, Manoela do Monte; Rodrigues-Neto, João FirminoCOVID-19 is a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that compromises the host immune response in severe cases, promoting a hyperinflammation that results in acute lung injury and multiple organs failure. In this context, patients presenting with immune-related diseases, such as Crohn’s disease, affected by COVID-19, may have an uncertain prognosis. We report on a case of a young female patient with a severe Crohn’s disease that presented with COVID-19 pneumonia and a favorable outcome even maintaining the use of adalimumab, TNF - alpha inhibitor and prednisone. This case raises the hypothesis that aside from prednisone, TNF-α inhibitors such as adalimumab could be used to stop the progression to COVID-19 complications by blocking the TNF-alpha-driven inflammatory process that occurs in severe COVID-19