Do Corticosteroid Injections for the Treatment of Pain Influence the Efficacy of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines?

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MYTH: Corticosteroid injection for the treatment of pain and inflammation is known to decrease the efficacy of the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

FACT: There is currently no direct evidence to suggest that a corticosteroid injection before or after the administration of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine decreases the efficacy of the vaccine.However, based on the known timeline of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis suppression following epidural and intraarticular corticosteroid injections, and the timeline of the reported peak efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, physicians should consider timing an elective corticosteroid injection such that it is administered no less than 2 weeks prior to a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine dose and no less than 1 week following a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine dose, whenever possible.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) - 22(2021), 4 vom: 20. Apr., Seite 994-1000

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lee, Haewon [VerfasserIn]
Punt, Jennifer A [VerfasserIn]
Miller, David C [VerfasserIn]
Nagpal, Ameet [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Clark C [VerfasserIn]
Sayeed, Yusef [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Jaymin [VerfasserIn]
Stojanovic, Milan P [VerfasserIn]
Popescu, Adrian [VerfasserIn]
McCormick, Zachary L [VerfasserIn]
Spine Intervention Society’s Patient Safety Committee [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adrenal Cortex Hormones
COVID-19 Vaccines
Journal Article
Vaccines, Synthetic

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Date Completed 26.04.2021

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/pm/pnab063

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NLM321641817