Correspondence
"SARS-CoV-2 vaccines of any kind are not free from side effects. They mainly cause neurological side effects affecting both the Central and Peripheral Nervous System (CNS, PNS). CNS disorders triggered by SARS-CoV-2 vaccines can be complicated by seizures. Seizures can occur without acute structural cerebral damage. Specifically, seizures are associated with encephalitis, Venous Sinus Thrombosis (VST), Acute, Disseminated, Encephalomyelitis (ADEM), and acute, necrotizing encephalitis. Seizures after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination have been reported especially with the brands BNT162b2 (Biontech-Pfizer vaccine [BPV]) and Ad26.COV2.S (Johnson & Johnson vaccine [JJV]). These seizures occurred within a few days after vaccination...
The patient is a 32-year-old female, height 165 cm weight 48 kg, who presented after a first tonic-clonic seizure five hours after JJV...
Since no plausible cause of the seizure could be determined, it was traced back to the JJV. The mechanism by which JJV triggered the seizure remains speculative ...
Overall, this case demonstrates that JJV can induce generalized seizures, repeat vaccination with a different brand after four months is safe and does not induce seizure recurrence, and prior brain damage may favor the development of seizures after vaccination."
© 2023 HCFMUSP. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You are not required to obtain permission to reuse this article.