Despite one of the largest vaccination campaigns in human history, the COVID-19 pandemic has not been yet defeated. More than 10 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered worldwide. AstraZeneca's Vaxzevria (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 / AZD1222) was approved as the first viral vector-based vaccine in the EU on 29 January 2021. Thromboembolic events are a rare complication of vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 in the context of, now known as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), with an incidence of 1.5-3 in 100,000 vaccinations. VITT is clinically as well as pathophysiologically comparable to heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Illustrated by a fulminant patient case, a multidisciplinary step-by-step guideline was developed for the recognition, diagnosis, and management of patients with severe acute portosplanchic venous thrombosis with mesenteric ischemia due to vaccine-induced immunogenic thrombotic thrombocytopenia.

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