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Editor, Senior Moderator
Cureus
. 2022 May 8;14(5):e24828.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.24828. eCollection 2022 May.
An Unusual Case of Hemorrhagic Pleuropericarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination
Aneeqa Javed[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yelizaveta Medina[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Julia Tian[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Muhammad Junaid Alvi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Syeda Sahra[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Geurys Rojas-Marte[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are being increasingly administered worldwide, subsequent side effects, such as myocarditis, pericarditis, and myopericarditis, are becoming increasingly more common. Our case describes a 64-year-old male who developed chest pain and shortness of breath one week after receiving the Moderna (Cambridge, Massachusetts) COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. He was found to have a large, left-sided pleural effusion and a small pericardial effusion. The patient underwent thoracentesis and video-assisted thoracoscopic procedure with chest tube placement, which drained bloody pleural and pericardial fluid. He was treated with a course of colchicine. Subsequent imaging revealed the resolution of pericardial and pleural effusions, along with the resolution of symptoms.
Keywords: covid 19; covid-19 vaccine; covid-19 vaccine complication; hemorrhagic; pericardial diseases; vaccine.
. 2022 May 8;14(5):e24828.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.24828. eCollection 2022 May.
An Unusual Case of Hemorrhagic Pleuropericarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination
Aneeqa Javed[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yelizaveta Medina[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Julia Tian[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Muhammad Junaid Alvi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Syeda Sahra[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Geurys Rojas-Marte[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35693361
- PMCID: PMC9173655
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.24828
Abstract
As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are being increasingly administered worldwide, subsequent side effects, such as myocarditis, pericarditis, and myopericarditis, are becoming increasingly more common. Our case describes a 64-year-old male who developed chest pain and shortness of breath one week after receiving the Moderna (Cambridge, Massachusetts) COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. He was found to have a large, left-sided pleural effusion and a small pericardial effusion. The patient underwent thoracentesis and video-assisted thoracoscopic procedure with chest tube placement, which drained bloody pleural and pericardial fluid. He was treated with a course of colchicine. Subsequent imaging revealed the resolution of pericardial and pleural effusions, along with the resolution of symptoms.
Keywords: covid 19; covid-19 vaccine; covid-19 vaccine complication; hemorrhagic; pericardial diseases; vaccine.