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Myelopathy following influenza vaccination in inflammatory CNS disorder treated with chronic immunosuppression
1Department of Neurology, St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London, UK. larner-a@wcnn-tr.nwest.nhs.uk
European Journal of Neurology
|January 3, 2001
Abstract:
We report a patient who developed a transverse myelitis with Brown-Séquard syndrome following a prophylactic influenza vaccination, despite being chronically immunosuppressed for a steroid-responsive optic neuropathy. Although influenza vaccination is recommended in patients receiving chronic immunosuppression, its use may on occasion be associated with neurological complications previously reported in immunocompetent individuals.