A Possible Association Between COVID-19 Vaccine and Complicated Pleural Effusion: A Case Report

As COVID-19 vaccines gain more prevalence, previously unrecognized side effects continue to be reported. We report a case of 78 male with no significant past medical history who was found to have a unilateral pleural effusion with symptoms that started two days after the administration of a COVID-19...

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Autores principales: Oudah, Bashar, Abu-Abaa, Mohammad, Al-Ameri, Noor, Ghazaleh, Jonathan, Vanam, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10274251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37332399
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39133
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author Oudah, Bashar
Abu-Abaa, Mohammad
Al-Ameri, Noor
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Vanam, Vijay
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description As COVID-19 vaccines gain more prevalence, previously unrecognized side effects continue to be reported. We report a case of 78 male with no significant past medical history who was found to have a unilateral pleural effusion with symptoms that started two days after the administration of a COVID-19 vaccine. The initial presumption was bacterial pneumonia with parapneumonic effusion. However, the lack of clinical response prompted surgical intervention, and a diagnosis of empyema was established. No evidence of infectious etiology was found. This case helps to support the previously limited evidence in the recent medical literature that suggests a possible association between COVID-19 vaccines and pleurisy/effusion.
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spelling pubmed-102742512023-06-17 A Possible Association Between COVID-19 Vaccine and Complicated Pleural Effusion: A Case Report Oudah, Bashar Abu-Abaa, Mohammad Al-Ameri, Noor Ghazaleh, Jonathan Vanam, Vijay Cureus Internal Medicine As COVID-19 vaccines gain more prevalence, previously unrecognized side effects continue to be reported. We report a case of 78 male with no significant past medical history who was found to have a unilateral pleural effusion with symptoms that started two days after the administration of a COVID-19 vaccine. The initial presumption was bacterial pneumonia with parapneumonic effusion. However, the lack of clinical response prompted surgical intervention, and a diagnosis of empyema was established. No evidence of infectious etiology was found. This case helps to support the previously limited evidence in the recent medical literature that suggests a possible association between COVID-19 vaccines and pleurisy/effusion. Cureus 2023-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10274251/ /pubmed/37332399 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39133 Text en Copyright © 2023, Oudah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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