An 86-year-old Japanese male patient visited a nearby hospital with painful swelling in his left upper and lower limbs 35 days after the second dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccine. He was referred to our hematological department due to a prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time and was urgently admitted. He was diagnosed with acquired hemophilia A (AHA) based on factor VIII (FVIII) activity of 1.
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