A 20-Year-Old Man with IgA Vasculitis following COVID-19 Vaccination
IgA vasculitis is a common type of vasculitis that is generally triggered by infectious causes. Vaccines have been reported as a trigger as well. Herein, we report a case of a young man who is previously healthy and who developed IgA vasculitis after the first dose of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine Pfize...
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| author | Abdulaziz Alsubaie Abdulmajeed Alshabanat Abdulrahman Almizel Mohammed Omair Rahaf Alodaini |
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| description | IgA vasculitis is a common type of vasculitis that is generally triggered by infectious causes. Vaccines have been reported as a trigger as well. Herein, we report a case of a young man who is previously healthy and who developed IgA vasculitis after the first dose of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech. The patient’s symptoms were mainly skin and joint without renal or other system involvement. The patient had an excellent outcome with complete resolution after treatment with steroid tapering and azathioprine as a steroid-sparing agent over 6 months. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cbdd7e82f5a44c2c87bd02d42038166b2025-02-03T01:29:29ZengWileyCase Reports in Rheumatology2090-68972023-01-01202310.1155/2023/9505383A 20-Year-Old Man with IgA Vasculitis following COVID-19 VaccinationAbdulaziz Alsubaie0Abdulmajeed Alshabanat1Abdulrahman Almizel2Mohammed Omair3Rahaf Alodaini4King Saud University College of MedicineKing Saud University College of MedicineDepartment of MedicineKing Saud University College of MedicineKing Saud University College of MedicineIgA vasculitis is a common type of vasculitis that is generally triggered by infectious causes. Vaccines have been reported as a trigger as well. Herein, we report a case of a young man who is previously healthy and who developed IgA vasculitis after the first dose of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech. The patient’s symptoms were mainly skin and joint without renal or other system involvement. The patient had an excellent outcome with complete resolution after treatment with steroid tapering and azathioprine as a steroid-sparing agent over 6 months.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/9505383 |
| spellingShingle | Abdulaziz Alsubaie Abdulmajeed Alshabanat Abdulrahman Almizel Mohammed Omair Rahaf Alodaini A 20-Year-Old Man with IgA Vasculitis following COVID-19 Vaccination Case Reports in Rheumatology |
| title | A 20-Year-Old Man with IgA Vasculitis following COVID-19 Vaccination |
| title_full | A 20-Year-Old Man with IgA Vasculitis following COVID-19 Vaccination |
| title_fullStr | A 20-Year-Old Man with IgA Vasculitis following COVID-19 Vaccination |
| title_full_unstemmed | A 20-Year-Old Man with IgA Vasculitis following COVID-19 Vaccination |
| title_short | A 20-Year-Old Man with IgA Vasculitis following COVID-19 Vaccination |
| title_sort | 20 year old man with iga vasculitis following covid 19 vaccination |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/9505383 |
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