Age-Stratified Risk of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis After SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination
- 15 February 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 98 (7), E759-E768
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000013148
Abstract
Background and Objectives Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (CVST) as a part of the thrombosis and thrombocytopenia syndrome is a rare adverse drug reaction of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Estimated background rate of CVST with thrombocytopenia is 0.1 per million per month. We assessed the age-stratified risk of CVST with and without thrombocytopenia after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Methods We estimated the absolute risk of CVST with and without thrombocytopenia within 28 days of first dose of four SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations, using data from the European Medicines Agency’s EudraVigilance database (until 13 June 2021). As a denominator, we used data on vaccine delivery from 31 European countries. For 22.8 million adults from 25 countries, we estimated the absolute risk of CVST after the first dose of ChAdOx1 nCov-19 per age category. Results The absolute risk of CVST within 28 days of first dose vaccination was 7.5 (95%CI 6.9-8.3), 0.7 (95%CI 0.2-2.4), 0.6 (95%CI 0.5-0.7) and 0.6 (95%CI 0.3-1.1) per million of first doses of ChAdOx1 nCov-19, Ad26.COV2.S, BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273, respectively. The absolute risk of CVST with thrombocytopenia within 28 days of first dose vaccination was 4.4 (95%CI 3.9-4.9), 0.7 (95%CI 0.2-2.4), 0.0 (95%CI 0.0-0.1) and 0.0 (95%CI 0.0-0.2) per million of first doses of ChAdOx1 nCov-19, Ad26.COV2.S, BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273, respectively. In recipients of ChAdOx1 nCov-19, the absolute risk of CVST, both with and without thrombocytopenia, was the highest in the 18-24 years age group (7.3 per million, 95%CI 2.8-18.8 and 3.7 per million, 95%CI 1.0-13.3, respectively). The risk of CVST with thrombocytopenia in ChAdOx1 nCov-19 recipients was the lowest in the age group≥70 years (0.2, 95%CI 0.0-1.3). Age Discussion The risk of CVST with thrombocytopenia within 28 days of first dose vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCov-19 was higher in younger age groups. The risk of CVST with thrombocytopenia was slightly increased in patients receiving Ad26.COV2.S, compared with the estimated background risk. The risk of CVST with thrombocytopenia was not increased in recipients of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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