Vasculitis Following Influenza Vaccination: A Review of the Literature

Current Rheumatology Reviews
Toru Watanabe

Abstract

Influenza vaccine is safe and effective for the general population as well as for patients with autoimmune diseases. However, although rare, vasculitis has been reported as an adverse event following influenza vaccination. The aims of this literature review were to identify patients who developed vasculitis following influenza vaccination and to clarify the clinical manifestations of vasculitis in these patients. Using the PubMed database and search engine, we performed a search of the Englishlanguage literature by combining the term influenza vaccination with each term for a specific form of vasculitis from January 1966 through April 2016. A total of 65 patients who developed vasculitis after influenza vaccination were identified from 45 published reports. The majority of patients were elderly, and the patients were predominantly female. The vasculitides included large vessel vasculitis (13 patients), medium vessel vasculitis (2), small vessel vasculitis (42), single organ vasculitis (5), vasculitis associated with systemic disease (1), and vasculitis associated with probable etiology (1). Although the majority of patients achieved complete recovery or remission, there were 3 deaths in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis ...Continue Reading

Citations

Mar 12, 2020·Ocular Immunology and Inflammation·Leonardo Ferreira JorgeDaniel Vítor Vasconcelos-Santos
Feb 24, 2021·Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System : JPNS·Pietro E DonedduUNKNOWN Italian Peripheral Nervous System Association (ASNP)
Jun 29, 2021·American Journal of Kidney Diseases : the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation·Andrew S BombackVivette D D'Agati
Jul 20, 2021·American Journal of Kidney Diseases : the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation·Muhammad Tariq ShakoorMatthew Lynch
Aug 29, 2021·Vaccines·Bianca OlivieriGiovanna Zanoni
Aug 26, 2021·QJM : Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians·T TakenakaM Kawamoto
Nov 17, 2021·Acta neurochirurgica·Ryuhei TakeyamaTooru Inoue

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