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Editor, Senior Moderator
BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Aug 27;2015. pii: bcr2015211971. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2015-211971.
[h=1]Retinal artery vasculitis secondary to administration of influenza vaccine.[/h] Williams GS[SUP]1[/SUP], Evans S[SUP]2[/SUP], Yeo D[SUP]2[/SUP], Al-Bermani A[SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] There are many differential diagnoses in investigating patients who present with retinal vasculitis, and the laboratory investigations used to investigate this have low-to-moderate sensitivity and/or specificity. Diagnoses include conditions such as tuberculosis or sarcoidosis, which may require long courses of antibiotics or immunosuppression. Influenza vaccination has been recognised as a cause of vasculitis for decades, although a purely ocular presentation is rare. We present a case of a 78-year-old Caucasian woman presenting with a single vessel arterial vasculitis of the right eye 8 weeks following influenza vaccination at her local general practitioner practice. We encourage ophthalmologists, rheumatologists and uveitis specialists to consider influenza vaccine as a cause of ocular vasculitis if the vaccine has been recently administered.
2015 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
PMID: 26315360 [PubMed - in process]
[h=1]Retinal artery vasculitis secondary to administration of influenza vaccine.[/h] Williams GS[SUP]1[/SUP], Evans S[SUP]2[/SUP], Yeo D[SUP]2[/SUP], Al-Bermani A[SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] There are many differential diagnoses in investigating patients who present with retinal vasculitis, and the laboratory investigations used to investigate this have low-to-moderate sensitivity and/or specificity. Diagnoses include conditions such as tuberculosis or sarcoidosis, which may require long courses of antibiotics or immunosuppression. Influenza vaccination has been recognised as a cause of vasculitis for decades, although a purely ocular presentation is rare. We present a case of a 78-year-old Caucasian woman presenting with a single vessel arterial vasculitis of the right eye 8 weeks following influenza vaccination at her local general practitioner practice. We encourage ophthalmologists, rheumatologists and uveitis specialists to consider influenza vaccine as a cause of ocular vasculitis if the vaccine has been recently administered.
2015 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
PMID: 26315360 [PubMed - in process]