Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in an older patient: Minireview and a case report

• Main Authors: Paulo Queiroz Luciano (Author), Renan Binatti (Author), André Rodrigues Sodré (Author), Sérgio Roberto Zajac (Author), Fernando Augusto Lima Marson (Author), Manoela Marques Ortega (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rare cases of unusual thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after administration of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AstraZeneca) have been reported. The unusual symptoms are called vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT). In the present study, a brief background about cases of unusual throm...