Carotid free-floating thrombus during COVID-19 vaccine era: causality or not?

Carotid free-floating thrombus (FFT) is very rarely diagnosed in patients with acute ischemic stroke. It is a real clinical emergency due to the significant risk of death associated with thromboembolic complications. Herein, we present three patients with ischemic stroke caused by carotid FFT after...

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Autores principales: Ferraù, Ludovica, Cotroneo, Masina, Dell’Aera, Cristina, Giammello, Fabrizio, Grillo, Francesco, Brizzi, Teresa, Pitrone, Antonio, Vinci, Sergio Lucio, Musolino, Rosa Fortunata, La Spina, Paolino
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9362674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35921016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10072-022-06307-1
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Sumario:Carotid free-floating thrombus (FFT) is very rarely diagnosed in patients with acute ischemic stroke. It is a real clinical emergency due to the significant risk of death associated with thromboembolic complications. Herein, we present three patients with ischemic stroke caused by carotid FFT after less than 20 days from administration of mRNA vaccine BNT162b1 (Pfizer/BioNTech) for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome—CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). To our knowledge, these are the first cases reporting carotid FTT following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10072-022-06307-1.

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