Letter to Editor
Josef Finsterer received his M.D. and Prof. of Neurology from the University of Vienna, Austria, and now works with the Neurology & Neurophysiology Center. (source)
"The patient is a 29-year-old ... female, who was hospitalised at a primary care unit for acute onset vertigo and dysarthria ... 4 days prior to the cerebrovascular event, she had undergone a first vaccination with a vector-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine... There was no indication for deep venous thrombosis. Cerebral MRI 19 days after the stroke confirmed the previously detected ischaemic lesion in the right cerebellar hemisphere...
[T]his case shows that juvenile, ischaemic stroke may occur shortly after vaccination with a vector-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in a patient with the risk factors smoking and PFO [patent foramen ovale]."
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