Boivin Zachary, Martin Jennifer
Emergency Medicine, University of Connecticut Emergency Medicine Residency, Farmington, USA.
Emergency Medicine, Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, USA.
Cureus. 2021 Mar 2;13(3):e13651. doi: 10.7759/cureus.13651.
We present the case of a 96-year-old female, with no known cardiac history, who suffered a myocardial infarction (MI) one hour after her first Moderna coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination. The patient was medically managed and discharged three days later. We are unable to attribute the cause of the patient's MI to the Moderna vaccine unless further data are published. As healthcare providers, we need to be aware of attempts to correlate bad outcomes with the vaccine without substantiated data, and anticipate patient questions that may arise from these reports. Any research on the topic should be written carefully and avoid overstating the findings. If more reports of serious side effects in older adults are published, providers should consider additional screenings prior to COVID-19 vaccination.
我们报告一例96岁女性病例,该患者无已知心脏病史,在首次接种莫德纳2019冠状病毒病(COVID-19)疫苗一小时后发生心肌梗死(MI)。患者接受了药物治疗,三天后出院。除非有更多数据公布,否则我们无法将患者心肌梗死的病因归因于莫德纳疫苗。作为医疗服务提供者,我们需要警惕在没有确凿数据的情况下将不良后果与疫苗关联的企图,并预料到这些报告会引发患者的疑问。关于该主题的任何研究都应谨慎撰写,避免夸大研究结果。如果有更多关于老年人严重副作用的报告发表,医疗服务提供者应考虑在接种COVID-19疫苗前进行额外筛查。