Are COVID-19 vaccines safe for people with epilepsy? A cross-sectional study
Articles > Article · 2022
Authors: Huseyin Nezih Ozdemir, Birgül DERE, Figen GÖKÇAY, Ahmet GÖKÇAY
NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2022, vol 43, pp 3489-3496
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-022-05956-6
Summary
Background COVID-19 disease was first seen in December 2019 and was declared a pandemic soon after. To fight the pandemic, there is an immense need for effective vaccines. The purposes of our study were to investigate the effect of coronavirus vaccines on seizures in people with epilepsy (PWE) and assess the adverse events of COVID-19 vaccine in PWE.