PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sareesh Bandapaati
AU  - Hemababu Bobba
AU  - Mitrakrishnan Rayno Navinan
TI  - Coeliac artery and splenic artery thrombosis complicated with splenic infarction 7 days following the first dose of Oxford vaccination, causal relationship or coincidence?
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2021-243799
DP  - 2021 Jul 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e243799
VI  - 14
IP  - 7
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/14/7/e243799.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/14/7/e243799.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2021 Jul 01; 14
AB  - The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 became a global pandemic in late 2019, and is still ongoing in 2021 causing significant morbidity and mortality. The advent of vaccinations heralded the turning of the tide. The Oxford jab, a vector-based vaccine was favoured due to its low cost and ease of storage. However, its potential association with thromboembolic adverse events resulted in controversy and disrupted its roll-out and use. The aetiopathogenesis of these thromboembolic events and its association with the Oxford vaccine are still speculative and uncertain, more so in the background of SARS-CoV-2 infection being highly thrombogenic in its own right. This paper presents a case of an otherwise healthy 50-year-old Caucasian man who developed acute abdominal pain 7 days following the first dose of Oxford vaccine and was found to have coeliac and splenic artery thrombosis complicated with splenic infarction.