Vaccinating with a COVID-19 Vaccine: Experience of the Tertiary Allergology Center
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Eglė Žilėnaitė
Vilnius University, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology, Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilnius University hospital Santaros Klinikos, Pulmonology and allergology department
Laura Malinauskienė
Vilnius University, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology, Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilnius University hospital Santaros Klinikos, Pulmonology and allergology department
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-7669
Kęstutis Černiauskas
Vilnius University, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology, Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilnius University hospital Santaros Klinikos, Pulmonology and allergology department
Linas Griguola
Vilnius University, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology, Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilnius University hospital Santaros Klinikos, Pulmonology and allergology department
Kotryna Linauskienė
Vilnius University, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology, Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilnius University hospital Santaros Klinikos, Pulmonology and allergology department
Violeta Kvedarienė
Vilnius University, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology, Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilnius University hospital Santaros Klinikos, Pulmonology and allergology department
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6119-211X
Anželika Chomičienė
Vilnius University, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergology, Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilnius University hospital Santaros Klinikos, Pulmonology and allergology department
Published 2022-07-26
https://doi.org/10.15388/Amed.2022.29.1.1
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Keywords

COVID-19 vaccination
allergy to vaccines
Pfizer Comirnaty

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Žilėnaitė E, Malinauskienė L, Černiauskas K, Linauskienė K, Kvedarienė V, Chomičienė A. Vaccinating with a COVID-19 Vaccine: Experience of the Tertiary Allergology Center. AML [Internet]. 2022 Jul. 26 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];29(1):27-32. Available from: https://journals.vu.lt./AML/article/view/24733

Abstract

Background: Allergic reactions after messenger RNA (mRNA)-based COVID-19 vaccines have been reported but detailed descriptions and further actions are not well characterized. 
Objective: To describe the symptoms of possible allergic reactions after the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and outcomes of further vaccination. 
Methods: We descriptively analyzed data of adult (≥18 years of age) patients, who were sent for vaccination to our outpatient center for the Diagnostics and Treatment of Allergic and Immune diseases. All patients were vaccinated with the Pfizer–BioNTech Comirnaty® vaccine.
Results: From January 2021 to July 2021 twenty-two patients were vaccinated in our center. Six patients experienced a reaction after the first Comirnaty® dose in different vaccination centers. The majority of them complained of various types of rashes after the first dose, one case was consistent with anaphylaxis. The latter patient was tested with the skin prick using Pfizer–BioNTech Comirnaty® vaccine and the test was negative. Other sixteen patients were vaccinated in our center from the first dose because of past allergic reactions to other medication or due to concomitant mast cell disorder. All patients were vaccinated without any immediate adverse reactions.
Conclusions: None of our patients experienced repeated cutaneous reactions after the second dose. Patients with previous anaphylaxis or mastocytosis also were safely vaccinated.

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