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Case Reports
. 2021 May 31;14(5):e242220.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-242220.

Secondary immune thrombocytopenia supposedly attributable to COVID-19 vaccination

Omar Fueyo-Rodriguez  1 , Benjamin Valente-Acosta  2 , Rodolfo Jimenez-Soto  1 , Yvette Neme-Yunes  1 , Sergio Ignacio Inclán-Alarcón  1 , Roxana Trejo-Gonzalez  1 , Miguel Ángel García-Salcido  3
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Secondary immune thrombocytopenia supposedly attributable to COVID-19 vaccination

Omar Fueyo-Rodriguez et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

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).

Keywords: COVID-19; immunological products and vaccines.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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