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Case Reports
. 2024 Jan 12;14(1):35-38.
doi: 10.55729/2000-9666.1287. eCollection 2024.

Reactive Arthritis After mpox Vaccination

Indira Acharya  1 , Lanaya W Smith  2 , Chandralekha Banerjee  3 , Lyn M Camire  1 , Radhika Vij  1   4
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Reactive Arthritis After mpox Vaccination

Indira Acharya et al. J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect. .

Abstract

Autoimmune inflammatory reaction after vaccination is a rare clinical entity. Reactive arthritis has been described after various vaccinations, but not after mpox vaccination. Here we present a case of recently diagnosed reactive arthritis after mpox vaccination that presented in the context of unrelenting fever and diarrhea complicated by migratory arthritis and anterior uveitis. We have reported this case to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Keywords: Autoimmune reaction; Monkeypox; Reactive arthritis; Vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS); mpox vaccination.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: The authors have no potential conflict of interest related to this article.

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Left eye examination. (A) Gross eye examination demonstrates left eye circumciliary congestion (arrow). (B) Speculum examination demonstrates the same circumciliary congestion (arrow) in left eye. (C) Slit lamp examination of left eye demonstrates irregular pupil (arrow) due to presence of posterior synechiae. (D) Slit lamp examination of left eye after a release of posterior synechiae demonstrates pigments (arrow) on the anterior capsule of the left lens.
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