Table 1.
Age | Sex | Time to onset from last dose | Vaccine | Diagnosis and |
Symptomsa | Severityb | FVIII inhibitor |
Immunosuppressive |
Outcome | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
treatment | (BU/mL) | treatment | ||||||||
69 | M | 9 days after 1st dose | N.A. | After 2nd dose | Hematoma in rectus femoris muscle | Mild | 80 | PSL | After 4 weeks, the inhibitor level had decreased to 2 BU/mL. | Radwi M et al. [6] |
85 | M | 1 week after 1st dose | Moderna mRNA-1273 | After 2nd dose | Hematoma in iliopsoas muscle | Severe | 2.2 | PSL, Rit | Died | Cittone MG et al. [12] |
86 | F | 3 weeks after 2nd dose | Moderna mRNA-1273 | After 2nd dose | Hemothorax | Severe | 1.1 | PSL | After 17 days, the FVIII:C level had increased to 178%. | Cittone MG et al. [12] |
72 | F | 2 weeks after 1st dose | Moderna mRNA-1273 | After 1st dose | Cutaneous hematomas, anemia | Severe | 12.4 | PSL, Rit | After 3 weeks, the inhibitor level had decreased to 5.6 BU/mL. | Cittone MG et al. [12] |
76 | F | 4 days after 2nd dose | Moderna mRNA-1274 | After 2nd dose | Ecchymoses, melanotic stool, anemia | Severe | 11.2 | mPSL, PSL | After 26 days, the inhibitor level had decreased to <0.5 BU/mL. | Portuguese AJ et al. [13] |
67 | M | 19 days after 2nd dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 2nd dose | Hematoma in the leg | Mild | 110 | PSL, Rit | After 34 days, the inhibitor level had decreased to <0.5 BU/mL. | Farley S et al. [14] |
70 | M | 8 days after 1st dose | Moderna mRNA-1273 | After 1st dose | Ecchymoses | Mild | 39.9 | PSL, CPA | After 6 days, the inhibitor level had decreased to 11.4 BU/mL. | Lemoine C et al. [15] |
86 | M | 14 days after 2nd dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 2nd dose | Hematoma, anemia | Severe | 2.1 | mPSL | After 7 months, the inhibitor became undetectable. | Leone MC et al. [16] |
73 | F | 14 days after 1st dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 2nd dose | Hematomas in knee and jaw | Mild | 0.8 | mPSL | After 5 months, the inhibitor became undetectable. | Leone MC et al. [16] |
67 | M | 49 days after 2nd dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 2nd dose | Hematoma of the tongue | Mild | 2.5 | PSL, CPA | Six days after discharge, the inhibitor became undetectable. | Leone MC et al. [16] |
77 | M | 52 days after 2nd dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 2nd dose | Hematuria, anemia | Severe | 6.9 | mPSL, Rit | Died | Leone MC et al. [16] |
95 | F | 1 week after 1st dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 2nd dose | Hematoma in hand | Mild | 5.4 | PSL, Rit | After 22 days, the inhibitor level had decreased to 0.7 BU/mL. | Murali A et al. [17] |
39 | F | 10 days after 1st dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 1st dose | Hematuria | Mild | 17.2 | None | After 2 months, the FVIII:C level had increased to 78.8%. | Soliman DS et al. [18] |
80 | M | 2 weeks after 1st dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 1st dose | Hematoma of the thigh, anemia | Severe | 7.5 | mPSL, PSL, AZ | After 6 weeks, the inhibitor became undetectable. | Ai Vuen L et al. [19] |
75 | M | 3 months after 2nd dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 2nd dose | Ecchymoses, anemia | Severe | 318 | PSL, Rit, CPA, CyA | Improved | Al Hennawi H et al. [20] |
77 | M | 3 weeks after 2nd dose | Moderna mRNA-1273 | After 2nd dose | Ecchymoses | Mild | 71.6 | PSL, CPA | After 5 weeks, the inhibitor level had decreased to 49 BU/mL. | Fu PA et al. [21] |
72 | M | 9 days after 3rd dose | Moderna mRNA-1273 | After 3rd dose | Ecchymoses, anemia | Severe | 158.6 | PSL, CPA, Rit | After 3 weeks, the inhibitor level had decreased to 20.6 BU/mL. | Plüß M et al. [22] |
75 | M | 6 days after 3rd dose | Pfizer BioNTech | After 3rd dose | Ecchymoses, anemia | Severe | N.A. | PSL, CPA | After 12 days, the FVIII:C level had increased to a normal level. | Rashid A et al. [23] |
45 | F | 2 weeks after 3rd dose | Moderna mRNA-1273 | After 3rd dose | Subcutaneous hemorrhage | Mild | 12.8 | PSL | After 3 weeks, the inhibitor level had decreased to 0.1 BU/mL. | This case |
COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; M, male; F, female; N.A., not applicable; FVIII, factor VIII; BU, Bethesda units; FVIII:C, FVIII coagulant activity.
PSL, prednisolone; Rit, rituximab; mPSL, methylprednisolone; CPA, cyclophosphamide; AZ, azathioprine; CyA, cyclosporine A.
Anemia was defined as a hemoglobin (Hb) level of <8 g/dL or a sudden drop in the Hb level of >2 g/dL that required a blood transfusion.