Behcet's disease and severe inflammatory reaction to 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine: a case report and review of literature. Issue 4 (November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Saeidinejad, MohammadMahdi; Kardash, Sally; Connell, Laura
• Is Part Of: Scottish medical journal. Volume 63:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 119
• Page End: 121
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Subjects: Behcet's disease -- pneumococcal vaccine -- vasculitis -- inflammatory reaction; Medicine -- Periodicals; 610.5
• DOI: 10.1177/0036933018801215
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0036-9330

Abstract

Current European League Against Rheumatism guidelines strongly recommend considering the use of polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine in all patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases. However, a previously published case series reports of reactions to 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in patients with Behcet's disease. The purpose of this report is to present a similar case of a systemic adverse reaction in a patient with Behcet's disease to 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.