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Suspected hepatitis B vaccination related vasculitis
C Le Hello1, P Cohen, M G Bousser
1Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Avicenne, Université Paris-Nord, Bobigny, France.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|January 26, 1999
Abstract:
Recombinant hepatitis B vaccination is widely used and severe side effects are rare. We describe 3 cases of vasculitis occurring after such immunization that are thought to have been vaccine induced. Vasculitides are now recognized as possible severe adverse side effects of immunization.