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ArticleCureus2022

Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Onset Within 24 Hours Following Moderna mRNA Booster COVID-19 Vaccination: Vaccine Adverse Event Vs. Hypertension?

Jocelyn McCullough, Manal Ahmad, Idy Tam, Reid Portnoy, Joseph Ng, Kuschner Zachary, Alan Kaell

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jocelyn McCulloughMedical Education, Mather Hospital, Commack, USA.
Manal AhmadMedical Education, Zucker School of Medicine, Hempstead, USA.
Idy TamMedicine, Zucker School Of Medicine, Hempstead, USA.
Reid PortnoyMedical Education, Zucker School Of Medicine, Hempstead, USA.
Joseph NgPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Zucker School Of Medicine, Hempstead, USA.
Kuschner ZacharyGeneral Medicine, Zucker School Of Medicine, Hempstead, USA.
Alan KaellMedicine, Zucker School of Medicine, Hempstead, USA.
Nyack Hospital · USDonald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell · USHofstra University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a case of a female who presented with the acute onset of neurological changes within 24 hours of receiving her third, or booster, dose of the mRNA Moderna (Cambridge, Massachusetts) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination. Her clinicoradiological findings were most consistent with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES). Although PRES has been reported with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, this raised suspicion of a possible vaccine-induced PRES with her only confounder being hypertension managed with a beta-blocker. Extensive workup for other entities associated with PRES, including infection, autoimmune, paraneoplastic syndrome, and alcohol were unrevealing. Thus far, there have not been any reports of PRES post mRNA vaccination. We encourage providers to report similar cases with neurological manifestations post mRNA vaccination to the vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS). Timely diagnosis and treatment of PRES may help minimize any irreversible neurological sequelae.

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covid 19 vaccine complicationhypertension and covid-19irreversible neurological damageposterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (pres)primary hypertensionvaccine adverse events

Identifiers

PMID35706738
PMCPMC9187357
OpenAlexW4280587720

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