
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 conrmed
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 conrmada. 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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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 conicts of interest.
CARE 2017 Check List statement: The authors
have real the CARE 2017 Check List and the
manuscript was prepared and revised according
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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.