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. 2021 Nov 25;385(22):2103-2105.
doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2112974. Epub 2021 Sep 15.

Vaccine-Induced Thrombocytopenia with Severe Headache

Farid Salih  1 , Linda Schönborn  2 , Siegfried Kohler  3 , Christiana Franke  3 , Martin Möckel  3 , Thomas Dörner  3 , Hans C Bauknecht  3 , Christian Pille  3 , Jan A Graw  3 , Angelika Alonso  4 , Johann Pelz  5 , Hauke Schneider  6 , Antonios Bayas  6 , Monika Christ  6 , Joji B Kuramatsu  7 , Thomas Thiele  8 , Andreas Greinacher  8 , Matthias Endres  9
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Vaccine-Induced Thrombocytopenia with Severe Headache

Farid Salih et al. N Engl J Med. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Clinical and Laboratory Data for Patients with VIT and Severe Headache (Pre-VITT Syndrome).
Shown are the time courses of the manifestation of pre-VITT syndrome (defined by headache onset), hospital admission (including emergency department admission and discharge in Patients 1 and 2), platelet counts, and cerebrovascular complications (in Patients 1, 2, and 3), as well as medical and neurosurgical treatment (decompressive craniectomy). In each graph, the number of days since the onset of headache is shown on the x axis and platelet counts on the y axis. Outcomes were assessed with the modified Rankin scale (mRS); scores on the scale range from 0 to 6, with higher scores indicating greater disability (0 indicates no symptoms, and 6 indicates death). CVST denotes cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, VIT vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia, and VITT vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia.
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