Erschienen in:
03.08.2022 | COVID-19 | Brief Communication
Carotid free-floating thrombus during COVID-19 vaccine era: causality or not?
verfasst von:
Ludovica Ferraù, Masina Cotroneo, Cristina Dell’Aera, Fabrizio Giammello, Francesco Grillo, Teresa Brizzi, Antonio Pitrone, Sergio Lucio Vinci, Rosa Fortunata Musolino, Paolino La Spina
Erschienen in:
Neurological Sciences
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Ausgabe 11/2022
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Abstract
Carotid free-floating thrombus (FFT) is very rarely diagnosed in patients with acute ischemic stroke. It is a real clinical emergency due to the significant risk of death associated with thromboembolic complications. Herein, we present three patients with ischemic stroke caused by carotid FFT after less than 20 days from administration of mRNA vaccine BNT162b1 (Pfizer/BioNTech) for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome—CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). To our knowledge, these are the first cases reporting carotid FTT following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.