ArticleActa medica Lituanic2021
Bell's Palsy After Second Dose of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine: Coincidence or Causation?
Article in Acta medica Lituanic, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Neuromuscular diseases associated with COVID-19 vaccines: a systematic review and pooled analysis of 258 patients.BMC neurology · 2023Pooled it
- COVID-19 vaccines and neurological disorders: A narrative review of immune responses and adverse reactions.AIMS neuroscience · 2025Review
- Bell's Palsy, an Adverse Event Following COVID Vaccines.Iranian journal of otorhinolaryngology · 2024Review
- Cardiac and Neurological Complications Post COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review of Case Reports and Case Series.Vaccines · 2024Review
- A review of the potential neurological adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2023Review
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- Bell's Palsy and COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2022Review
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Abstract
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended enhanced safety surveillance to monitor for cases of Bell's palsy following Moderna vaccine administration in larger populations. The author reports a patient who developed right sided Bell's palsy 2 weeks after administration of the second dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Considering this development of symptoms 2 weeks after the second dose of Moderna vaccine administration, there remains a possibility of a causal association. As more people get vaccinated, more information may be available in the future to establish association. Physicians need to maintain enhanced safety surveillance to monitor for cases of Bell's palsy following mRNA vaccine administration.
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