Vaccination and SLE: the bidirectional dilemmas.

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Lupus 2001;10(3):237-40

Vaccination and systemic lupus erythematosus: the

bidirectional dilemmas.

Aron-Maor A, Shoenfeld Y.

Department of Internal Medicine B and Center for

Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Sacklea

Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University,

Tel-Hashomer, Israel.

Vaccination has been perhaps the most important

achievement in medicine of the last century. A hoard

of infectious diseases that used to claim the lives of

many, especially children, have been prevented and

some even eradicated. However, it is possible that

within this gift there is hidden a 'Trojan Horse'.

During the last decade increasing numbers of reports

regarding possible autoimmune side effects of

vaccination, have been published. The existing data

does not link the vaccines and the autoimmune

phenomena observed in a causal relationship,

nevertheless a temporal connection has been described.

In this article we wish to address in particular the

possible link between vaccines and systemic lupus

erythematosus (SLE), namely two aspects of this

inter-relationship: the occurrence of SLE following

vaccination and outcome of immunization of known SLE

patients.

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