By  Megan Redshaw

The Bay Area man’s case is the first instance of U.S. public health officials specifically acknowledging “vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia syndrome” in a male who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The man was vaccinated April 8, and a week later experienced increasing lower back and leg pain. He was hospitalized at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) medical center where he received treatment “which includes intravenous immune globulin, the anticoagulant argatroban and prednisone,” UCSF spokeswoman Suzanne Leigh said in a statement Monday.

Doctors at UCSF said the man is being treated for vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) and that he is responding well to treatment and should be released soon.

VITT is characterized by the presence of two conditions concurrently: thrombosis (often in unusual sites like the cerebral sinus veins or splanchnic veins) and thrombocytopenia, and is associated with prior administration of the J&J or AstraZeneca COVID vaccines.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first male patient with VITT syndrome in the U.S. following the Emergency Use Authorization of the J&J vaccine on Feb. 27, 2021,” Leigh said.

Dr. Monica Gandhi, associate division chief and professor of medicine at UCSF said, “This particular person had a more mild clot, and one in the leg. But certainly it’s a real clot, and he’s in his early 30’s, so likely could be linked to the vaccine.”

The news comes just days after an independent advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on April 23 voted 10 to 4 to recommend the continued use of the J&J vaccine after acknowledging a “possible link” between the vaccine and rare blood clotting disorders, mostly in young people. The panel concluded the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks.

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