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'We Were Flying Blind': A Doctor's Account of a Woman's J&J Vaccine-Related Blood Clot Case
Denise Grady
Sat, 17 April 2021, 10:16 pm
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addresses a news conference about the pause in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
An 18-year-old woman was stricken with severe headaches, vomiting, seizures, confusion and weakness in one arm early this month, strokelike symptoms that doctors at a Nevada hospital were shocked to see in someone so young.
Scans found several large blood clots blocking veins that drain blood from the brain, a condition that can disable or kill a patient.
Doctors performed a procedure to suction huge clots from her brain, only to find that new ones had formed.
The patient is one of six women ages 18 to 48 who developed clots in the brain within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. One died, and their devastating cases led U.S. health officials to recommend Tuesday that use of the vaccine be paused.
Two more cases have been added since then: one involving a man who was vaccinated during the company’s clinical trials and another involving a woman who received the vaccine after it had been authorized for general use.
As in several of the original cases, the young woman in Nevada was initially treated with heparin, a standard blood-thinner that experts have since learned may actually worsen the rare clotting disorder that has affected small numbers of people who received the Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca vaccines in several countries. But until the last few weeks, doctors around the world had little information about the condition, and the doctors in Nevada did not recognize it immediately.
“We were flying blind, based on reports from Europe and the U.K. hematological society,” said Dr. Brian Lipman, an infectious-disease specialist who helped care for the Nevada patient at Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus, in Henderson.
The U.S. decision to call for suspension of the use of the vaccine was intended to give officials time to learn more about the rare disorder causing the clots, to assess whether it is linked to the vaccine and to inform doctors and patients about how to recognize symptoms and treat the condition.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/were-flying-blind-doctors-account-141618443.html
Denise Grady
Sat, 17 April 2021, 10:16 pm
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addresses a news conference about the pause in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
An 18-year-old woman was stricken with severe headaches, vomiting, seizures, confusion and weakness in one arm early this month, strokelike symptoms that doctors at a Nevada hospital were shocked to see in someone so young.
Scans found several large blood clots blocking veins that drain blood from the brain, a condition that can disable or kill a patient.
Doctors performed a procedure to suction huge clots from her brain, only to find that new ones had formed.
The patient is one of six women ages 18 to 48 who developed clots in the brain within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. One died, and their devastating cases led U.S. health officials to recommend Tuesday that use of the vaccine be paused.
Two more cases have been added since then: one involving a man who was vaccinated during the company’s clinical trials and another involving a woman who received the vaccine after it had been authorized for general use.
As in several of the original cases, the young woman in Nevada was initially treated with heparin, a standard blood-thinner that experts have since learned may actually worsen the rare clotting disorder that has affected small numbers of people who received the Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca vaccines in several countries. But until the last few weeks, doctors around the world had little information about the condition, and the doctors in Nevada did not recognize it immediately.
“We were flying blind, based on reports from Europe and the U.K. hematological society,” said Dr. Brian Lipman, an infectious-disease specialist who helped care for the Nevada patient at Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus, in Henderson.
The U.S. decision to call for suspension of the use of the vaccine was intended to give officials time to learn more about the rare disorder causing the clots, to assess whether it is linked to the vaccine and to inform doctors and patients about how to recognize symptoms and treat the condition.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/were-flying-blind-doctors-account-141618443.html
