Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918

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Successful Treatment of Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura with Intracranial Hemorrhaging and Duodenal Bleeding Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination
Yuta BabaHirotaka SakaiNobuyuki KabasawaHiroshi Harada
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JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS Advance online publication

Article ID: 9199-21

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Several vaccines have been developed for coronavirus disease 2019-caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-in record time. A few cases of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination have been reported. We herein report a 90-year-old man who received the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (BNT162b2) and developed severe thrombocytopenia with intracranial hemorrhaging and duodenal bleeding, consistent with vaccine-related ITP. He was successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin, prednisolone, and eltrombopag and discharged without cytopenia. Vaccine-related ITP should be suspected in patients presenting with abnormal bleeding or purpura after vaccination.

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