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The new observation, made by UNC School of Medicine’s Stephan Moll, MD, and Jacquelyn Baskin-Miller, MD, suggests that a life-threatening blood clotting disorder can be caused by an infection with adenovirus, one of the most common respiratory viruses in pediatric and adult patients.
First reports of an anti-PF4 disorder associated with an adenovirus infection
April 09, 2021 One of the first papers to document the rare thrombotic events seen in Austria and Germany involving a form of thrombocytopenia after inoculation with the vaccine jointly developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca has now been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, accompanied by a brief report confirming similar findings in a Norwegian cohort. Taken together the papers show a clear link between this particular vaccine and the ”clotting abnormalities” that have led countries around the world to pause or revise their plans for the use of the Oxford/As...