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Report #2863099

Received Oct 3, 2025

ER / ED visitOffice visit
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Overview

Sex
Female
Age
69 yrs
State
NY
Recovered
Not recovered
Vaccinated
Jan 26, 2025
Onset
Jan 1, 2025
Days to onset
—
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
RSVRSV (ABRYSVO)PFIZER\WYETH1LG9829RA

Symptoms (3)

LymphadenopathyPharyngeal hypoaesthesiaSwelling face

Symptom narrative

numbness in the throat; facial swelling / swelling in her face was in her right jaw; enlarged lymph node; This is a spontaneous report received from a Consumer or other non HCP. A 69-year-old female patient received rsv vaccine prot.subunit pref 2v (ABRYSVO), on 26Jan2025 as dose 1, single (Lot number: LG9829) at the age of 69 years, in right deltoid for immunisation. The patient's relevant medical history included: "high blood pressure" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: diagnosed about 20 years ago and it ws contained; "sulfa drugs" (unspecified if ongoing); "thyroid nodules", start date: 2017 (unspecified if ongoing). Concomitant medication(s) included: OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL AND HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE oral (ongoing). The following information was reported: LYMPHADENOPATHY (non-serious) with onset Jan2025, outcome "recovered" (2025), described as "enlarged lymph node"; SWELLING FACE (non-serious) with onset 26Jan2025, outcome "recovering", described as "facial swelling / swelling in her face was in her right jaw"; PHARYNGEAL HYPOAESTHESIA (non-serious) with onset 26Jan2025, outcome "recovered" (2025), described as "numbness in the throat". The event "enlarged lymph node" required physician office visit. The event "facial swelling / swelling in her face was in her right jaw" required emergency room visit. Relevant laboratory tests and procedures are available in the appropriate section. Therapeutic measures were not taken as a result of lymphadenopathy. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of swelling face. Additional information: The patient has never had an allergic reaction. On 26Jan2025 she got Abrysvo and about 5 or 6 minutes later her left side felt as if she was injecting with NOVOCAIN (procaine). She experienced numbness in the throat and took about 90 days for it to go away. She went back to the pharmacy and the agent at the counter said it could not be the Abrysvo shot, she reminded them that she had walked in fine. On 27Jan2025 her right side was swollen, and she went to the hospital where she got prednisone, she was not admitted, and she was in the emergency room for about 4 hours. The swelling in her face was in her right jaw which started on 26Jan2025, only took about 24 hours to go down, the swelling went down progressively for three months. She had an enlarged lymph node and she was not aware of it until she went to the doctor about a week later after receiving Abrysvo. Her lymph node was enlarged due to the Abrysvo shot, and was recovered completely about several months later, it took about 90 days to recover. She had a biopsy done on 07Apr2025 at Hospital and they were not successfully able to biopsy the lymph node since it was close to an artery. She had thyroid nodules which she was previously aware of. Clarifies she was diagnosed with thyroid nodules back in 2017 and the biopsy she had was on her thyroid nodules. The biopsy of the thyroid nodules that were non-cancerous and that is why they felt the lymph node was also non-cancerous. The patient did not receive any other vaccines on the same date as the Pfizer vaccine and, to her knowledge, had not received any other vaccines within four weeks prior to the first administration of the suspect vaccine.

Medical history

Medical History/Concurrent Conditions: Blood pressure high (diagnosed about 20 years ago and it ws contained); Sulfonamide allergy; Thyroid mass

Other medications

OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL AND HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE

Lab data

Test Date: 20250407; Test Name: biopsy; Result Unstructured Data: Test Result:not successfully able to biopsy the lymph node; Comments: since it was close to an artery