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Case report
Secondary immune thrombocytopenia supposedly attributable to COVID-19 vaccination
  1. Omar Fueyo-Rodriguez1,
  2. Benjamin Valente-Acosta1,
  3. Rodolfo Jimenez-Soto1,
  4. Yvette Neme-Yunes1,
  5. Sergio Ignacio Inclán-Alarcón1,
  6. Roxana Trejo-Gonzalez1 and
  7. Miguel Ángel García-Salcido2
  1. 1Centro Medico ABC, Ciudad de México, Mexico
  2. 2Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health, Mexico, Mexico
  1. Correspondence to Dr Benjamin Valente-Acosta; benjamin.valente-acosta1{at}alumni.lshtm.ac.uk

Abstract

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) has been widely reported as a complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but to our knowledge, there have been no reports on the association of the COVID-19 vaccine with thrombocytopenia. Here, we report a case of secondary ITP in a patient who was recently immunised with the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech).

  • COVID-19
  • immunological products and vaccines

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-242220

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    Footnotes

    • OF-R and BV-A are joint first authors.

    • Contributors BV-A, OF-R and RJ-S conceived the idea and design of the article. OF-R, RJ-S, YN-Y, SIA, RTG, MAGS and BV-A contributed to the preparation and review of the initial manuscript. BV-A drafted the final work and reviewed it critically. All authors approved the final version.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.