ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2022
Polymyalgia Rheumatica Following COVID-19 Vaccination.
Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Association of Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis With COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review.Clinical medicine insights. Arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Review
- Risk of new-onset polymyalgia rheumatica following COVID-19 vaccination in South Korea: a self-controlled case-series study.RMD open · 2025Article
- An overview of HLA variants in COVID-19 vaccine-induced autoimmunity.International journal of molecular epidemiology and genetics · 2025Review
- Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis following COVID-19 vaccination: Results from a nationwide survey.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Article
- Case report of transient polymyalgia rheumatica after receiving the first dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.SAGE open medical case reports · 2024Article
- New-Onset Rheumatic Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinations until May 2023: A Systematic Review.Vaccines · 2023Review
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Abstract
We herein report a 71-year-old woman presented with a fever, arthralgia, general malaise and leg muscle stiffness following administration of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (Comirnaty, Pfizer-BioNTech). Laboratory findings showed an elevated C-reactive protein level and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. In addition, Gallium-67 scintigraphy demonstrated an increased uptake in multiple joints. Typing of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) revealed the presence of the DRB1*0404/*0803 allele. These findings met the diagnostic criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), and when we started steroid treatment, her symptoms improved rapidly. This patient developed PMR after receiving a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (Comirnaty, Pfizer-BioNTech). This case is considered to be valuable, as the HLA-DRB1 allele was also confirmed.
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