Takayasu’s arteritis diagnosed/relapsed following COVID-19 vaccine: A case report with literature review by Abdul-Wahab Al-Allalf in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Science
Takayasu’s arteritis diagnosed/relapsed following COVID-19 vaccine: A case report with literature review by Abdul-Wahab Al-Allalf in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Science Abstract COVID-19 infection has been associated with high morbidity and mortality. The vaccines for COVID-19 have been regarded as a necessity to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies indicated that the vaccine is safe, however, there is still some worry about the possible side effects associated with the vaccine. Since the use of the vaccine, there has been an emergence of some case reposts and cases series highlighting some temporal relationships between COVID-19 vaccination and the occurrence of some autoimmune diseases. Here we are reporting a 43-year-old female who has had an unexplained complete left vertebral artery occlusion 25 years ago. Then she was asymptomatic after that and leading a normal life. Two weeks after her AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, she presented to the clinic...