URETERAL COLIC ASSOCIATED WITH
ASTRAZENECA VACCINATION, CASE REPORT
Vitorino Modesto dos Santos 1,2*, Lister Arruda Modesto dos Santos 3
We report on the repeated occurrence of ureteral colic episodes after each
dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. A 78-year-old man,
with an episode of urinary stone three years previously, presented acute crisis
of ureteral colic due to calculi following the vaccinations. In the episode after
the rst injection the patient was treated at home and the stone was eliminated
without invasive procedures; while in the second one he needed to undergo
a double J catheter because of a moderate obstruction. Although urological
manifestations have been described in relation to COVID-19 vaccination, in
the present case at least a temporal relationship was observed between the
ureteral colic episodes and the AstraZeneca vaccine without a conrmed
causality. The purpose of this report is to increase the interest of health care
workers about eventual adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines, in this case
by AstraZeneca product.
Informamos sobre la aparición repetida de episodios de cólicos ureterales
después de cada dosis de la vacuna Astra Zeneca contra el SARS-CoV-2.
Varón de 78 años, con un episodio de litiasis urinario tres años antes, que
presentó crisis aguda de cólico ureteral por litiasis tras las vacunaciones.
En el episodio posterior a la primera inyección se trató al paciente en su
domicilio y se eliminó el cálculo sin procedimientos invasivos; mientras que
en el segundo debió someterse a un catéter doble J por una obstrucción
moderada. Aunque se han descrito manifestaciones urológicas en relación
con la vacunación contra la COVID-19, en el presente caso se observó
al menos una relación temporal entre los episodios de cólico ureteral y la
vacuna de AstraZeneca sin causalidad conrmada. El propósito de este
informe es aumentar el interés de los trabajadores de la salud sobre los
eventuales efectos adversos de las vacunas contra el COVID-19, en este
caso del producto AstraZeneca.
REPORTE DE CASO
Revista Médica Vozandes
Volumen 33, Número 1, 2022
Resumen
CÓLICO URETERAL ASOCIADO A LA VACUNACIÓN POR
ASTRAZENECA, REPORTE DE CASO
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Abstract
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Urologic symptoms; Vaccine.
Forma de citar este artículo: Santos
VM, Santos LAM. URETERAL COLIC
ASSOCIATED WITH ASTRAZENECA
VACCINATION, CASE REPORT . Rev Med
Vozandes. 2022; 33 (1): 49 - 53
1.Armed Forces Hospital. Department of Internal Medi-
cine. Brasília-DF – Brazil.
2.Catholic University of Brasília. Brasília-DF – Brazil.
3.Instituto de Assistência Médica ao Servidor Público
Estadual – IAMSPE. Department of Advanced General
Surgery and Oncosurgery. São Paulo-SP – Brazil
ORCID ID:
Vitorino Modesto dos Santos
orcid.org/0000-0002-7033-6074
Lister Arruda Modesto dos Santos
orcid.org/0000-0003-4647-4044
*Corresponding author: Modesto dos Santos
Vitorino
E-mail: vitorinomodesto@gmail.com
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derivadas 4.0 International.
Received: 25 – Aug – 2021
Accepted: 30 – Apr – 2022
Publish: 01 – Jun – 2022
Conflict of interest: The authors have full
freedom of manuscript preparation, and there were no
potential conicts of interest.
CARE 2017 Check List statement: The authors
have real the CARE 2017 Check List and the
manuscript was prepared and revised according
to the CARE 2017 Checklist.
Financial disclosure: The authors have no nan-
cial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.
Authors’ contribution: The authors equally
contributed to this work: study conception and design,
acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data,
drafting of manuscript and critical revision.
DOI: 10.48018/rmv.v33.i1.4
Palabras clave: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Síntomas urológicos; Vacuna.