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Would you advise a patient with quiescent vasculitis who flared with the first Covid mRNA vaccine to obtain an additional dose?

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Rheumatology · Massachusetts General Hospital

There is still much we don't know about mRNA vaccines, including the true risk of vasculitis relapse and the risk of relapses occurring with vaccine re-challenge. Relapses of vasculitis after COVID vaccination have only been reported in case report form to date. Therefore it's not possible to tell w...

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Rheumatology · UT Southwestern

I completely agree, the risk is probably low and I still advise my patients to be vaccinated.

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