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Editor, Senior Moderator
Infect Chemother
. 2021 Dec 20.
doi: 10.3947/ic.2021.0072. Online ahead of print.
Treatment for Immune Thrombocytopenia in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection after COVID-19 Vaccination: A Case Report
Jun Hee Lee[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sang-Min Oh[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Eunyoung Lee[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ji Hwan Bang[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sang-Won Park[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Thrombocytopenia is one of the rare signs of both the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and COVID-19 vaccination. An 85-year-old man was diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia and COVID-19, 7 days after COVID-19 vaccination. The patient was successfully treated with a short course of intravenous immunoglobulin and oral corticosteroids.
Keywords: Coronavirus disease 2019; Covid-19 vaccines; SARS-CoV-2; Vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia.
. 2021 Dec 20.
doi: 10.3947/ic.2021.0072. Online ahead of print.
Treatment for Immune Thrombocytopenia in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection after COVID-19 Vaccination: A Case Report
Jun Hee Lee[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sang-Min Oh[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Eunyoung Lee[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ji Hwan Bang[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sang-Won Park[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35132832
- DOI: 10.3947/ic.2021.0072
Abstract
Thrombocytopenia is one of the rare signs of both the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and COVID-19 vaccination. An 85-year-old man was diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia and COVID-19, 7 days after COVID-19 vaccination. The patient was successfully treated with a short course of intravenous immunoglobulin and oral corticosteroids.
Keywords: Coronavirus disease 2019; Covid-19 vaccines; SARS-CoV-2; Vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia.