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Cureus
. 2021 Dec 16;13(12):e20455.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.20455. eCollection 2021 Dec.
A Case of Hepatotoxicity After Receiving a COVID-19 Vaccine
Muath M Alqarni[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ammar Z Faloudah[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Amjad S Alsulaihebi[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hassan K Halawani[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Abdulmajeed S Khan[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a global health crisis. Its clinical manifestations are well-documented, and severe complications among patients who survived the infection are being continuously reported. Several vaccines with well-established efficacies and excellent safety profiles have also been approved. To date, few side effects of vaccines have been reported. Drug-induced hepatotoxicity is an extremely rare side effect of these vaccines, with few reported instances. In this case report, we describe a patient who experienced hepatotoxicity after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer BioNTech.
Keywords: coronavirus disease; covid19 vaccine; drug-induced acute liver failure; hepatotoxicity; vaccine side effects.
. 2021 Dec 16;13(12):e20455.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.20455. eCollection 2021 Dec.
A Case of Hepatotoxicity After Receiving a COVID-19 Vaccine
Muath M Alqarni[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ammar Z Faloudah[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Amjad S Alsulaihebi[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hassan K Halawani[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Abdulmajeed S Khan[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35070524
- PMCID: PMC8760787
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.20455
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a global health crisis. Its clinical manifestations are well-documented, and severe complications among patients who survived the infection are being continuously reported. Several vaccines with well-established efficacies and excellent safety profiles have also been approved. To date, few side effects of vaccines have been reported. Drug-induced hepatotoxicity is an extremely rare side effect of these vaccines, with few reported instances. In this case report, we describe a patient who experienced hepatotoxicity after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer BioNTech.
Keywords: coronavirus disease; covid19 vaccine; drug-induced acute liver failure; hepatotoxicity; vaccine side effects.