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Post-COVID-19 vaccine acute encephalitis in an adult patient: A case report and literature review.

Maryam PakfetratLeila MalekmakanBijan NajafiTaraneh ZamaniMina Mashayekh
Published in: Clinical case reports (2023)
Several vaccines were approved after COVID-19 pandemic, which have been fast-tracked for emergency use. The short- and long-term safety profile has been an area of concern. We presented a patient with encephalitis followed by hyponatremia who developed hallucination and seizure 1 day after receiving the second dose of Sinopharm vaccine.
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