Two case reports of skin vasculitis following the COVID-19 immunization.

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Vilnius University, Medical Faculty, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology, Department of Pulmonology and Allergology, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Published: December 2022

The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease is now responsible for one of the most challenging and concerning pandemics. Since December 2020, the world has had access to COVID-19 prophylaxis; thus, we encounter adverse events from vaccination more often due to the vast vaccination range. We present two case reports of difficult-to-treat skin vasculitis due to COVID-19 vaccination that were successfully treated in a tertiary-level university hospital. When encountering systemic treatment, resistant skin vasculitis plasmapheresis could be a choice of treatment.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9743192PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2022-0608DOI Listing

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