Are COVID-19 vaccines safe for people with epilepsy? A cross-sectional study.

Huseyin Nezih OzdemirBirgül DereFigen GökçayAhmet Gökçay

Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2022)

The vaccines under consideration in our study were tolerated well by the epilepsy patients. The vaccines did not affect the monthly number of seizures of the PWE. A small number of patients had more seizures than normal after vaccination. We think that benefits of the vaccines outweigh the slightly increased possibility of having a seizure after vaccination.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
sars cov
coronavirus disease
risk factors
patient reported outcomes
temporal lobe epilepsy
respiratory syndrome coronavirus