by Kris Roberts BSc, MBChB, PGCert MedEd,Nittu Sidhu MBBS, MD Psych (IND),Melanie Russel BSN, RMN,Mohammed J Abbas MBChB, M Med Sci, FRCPsych
Vaccines are the predominant biological management measure for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, and aim to break the chain between disease status and hospitalisation. Unseen or rare side-effects are being reported via the COVID-19-specific Yellow Card reporting site, including mania, psychosis and encephalitis of various subtypes. This article presents a patient displaying a range of psychiatric pathologies that occurred within 10 days of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination and resolved spontaneously without antipsychotic medication. The possibility of a vaccine-related autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is tentatively raised.
