Thrombosis after vaccine, Bassetti: “Psychosis doesn’t break out for 18 years old”

The case of the 18-year-old girl, vaccinated a few days ago with AstraZeneca, and operated on yesterday at the Policlinico San Martino in Genoa for a thrombosis, “must not trigger psychosis”. This was stated by Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, to Adnkronos Salute. “It was right to report the case quickly to the competent pharmacovigilance bodies but thrombosis can also be caused by the simultaneous administration of other drugs – continues Bassetti – now I do not know the girl’s case thoroughly even if it is managed here in the hospital where I work, but there may be other drugs involved. When vaccinating against Covid, the doctor must be informed if you are taking specific therapies “. The infectious specialist recalls how “the contraceptive pill has had 200 thrombotic events for every million vaccinated women and I do not think that no woman has thought of giving it up – he observes – treatment with heparima has recorded 5 thousand thrombotic events out of 1 million doses of heparin administered. The anti-Covid viral vector vaccine such as AstraZeneca or J&J has recorded 6 cases per million vaccinated “. “Now it will be understood what triggered the thrombosis of the cavernous sinuses, they are always very serious – concludes Bassetti – but an accurate investigation is also needed to establish the presence of malformations, if the anti-Covid vaccine has amplified a response that however would have occurred. itself and the vaccine has nothing to do with it. Pharmacovigilance will tell us if this is an event related to the AstraZeneca vaccine. “