and relapsing necrotizing vasculitis after COVID-19 vaccination.

Clin Kidney J

Service de néphrologie-hypertension artérielle, dialyses, transplantation rénale, CHU Bretonneau, Tours, France.

Published: March 2022

We describe five cases of severe necrotizing vasculitis following the RNA-based vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), including four relapsing anti neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) vasculitis, 27 days (1-60) after vaccination and one patient with quiescent chronic hepatitis B and polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) 21 days after vaccination. Ten other cases were reported to the French national pharmacovigilance database: six patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis and four patients with PAN (first symptoms 19 days on average after vaccination). Five of these 10 patients developed kidney dysfunction. In conclusion, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines can be associated with or recurrent ANCA vasculitis or PAN. Attention should be paid to patients with known ANCA vasculitis or patients with a history of hepatitis B infection.

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