MYELITIS DUE TO VACCINATION

Myelitis Due to Vaccination.

MYELITIS as part of a post vaccinial encephalomyelitis is well known, and histological changes occurring in the spinal cord were fully described in the earlier case records (Turnbull and McIntosh, 1926). The purpose of the present paper is to draw attention to the fact that myelitis uncomplicated by encephalitis also occurs as a sequel to vaccination. The following case which I have recently ha...

Acute transverse myelitis following typhoid vaccination

Immune-mediated myelitis following hepatitis B vaccination.

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an important international cause of infectious acute and chronic liver diseases. HBV vaccines were developed to combat the potential life-threatening effects of HBV infection. Published case histories, retrospective reviews and analyses of epidemiological data report on the onset of immune-mediated myelitis after recombinant HBV vaccination, mostly in adults with ...

Diffuse myelitis associated with rubella vaccination.

Two patients who had received live rubella vaccine developed diffuse myelitis shortly afterwards. Neither patient fully recovered her motor function. In one patients the time between vaccination and development of neurological signs was rather too short to indicate definitely a causal relation. Nevertheless, the chronological association is suggestive, and other observations of such an associat...

Acute Myelitis after hepatitis B vaccination.

We report a case of myelitis after plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccination. The patient was a 31-year-old man who presented with progressive sensory symptoms in extremities that developed 2 weeks after a third vaccination. MRI of the cervicothoracic region revealed swelling and T2 high signal at the level of C4 to C5 cord, and isolated enhancement in the posterior columns between C4 and C5 cord....