Vaccine‐induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia: Consider IVIG batch in the treatment

A Karnam, S Lacroix‐Desmazes, SV Kaveri… - Journal of Thrombosis …, 2021 - jthjournal.org
Various vaccines have been developed recently to protect the population from coronavirus
disease-19 (COVID-19). Although the beneficial effects of vaccines outweigh the risks
associated with vaccination, unusual but life threatening thrombosis and thrombocytopenia,
termed as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) or vaccine-induced
prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia (VIPIT) have been observed in certain individuals
who received recombinant adenoviral vector encoding spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 …