HPV vaccination has been linked to demyelination. - GreenMedInfo Summary
A 16-year-old girl with bilateral visual loss and left hemiparesis following an immunization against human papilloma virus.
J Child Neurol. 2010 Mar;25(3):321-7. PMID: 20189933
Departments of Pediatrics, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA. [email protected]
We report the course of a 16-year-old girl who presented with near complete visual loss associated with chiasmal neuritis and a biopsy proven tumefactive demyelinating lesion on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in association with a recent immunization against human papilloma virus.