Introduction:
The outbreak of COVID-19 has severely affected the whole world. As
vaccines are being distributed around the globe to fight this pandemic,
we are also witnessing an increase in the studies reporting their
side-effects. To date, the most common post-vaccination side-effects
have been injection site reactions, flu-like complaint, headache, and
asthenia that were fortunately mostly mild and self-limiting(1).
Furthermore, neurological symptoms including headache, pain, and rarely
tremor, diplopia, tinnitus, seizures, and reactivation of herpes zoster
have been reported(2). Other neurological manifestations such as stroke,
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), Bell’s palsy and transverse myelitis (TM)
have also been observed(3-5).
Acute cerebellitis (AC) is a very uncommon condition, and rarer is the
vaccine-associated AC. However, some studies have reported its
occurrence following administration of the Influenza vaccine. As the
number of reports on the side-effects of COVID-19 vaccines increases, we
will be able to better prevent and cure such dreaded outcomes. Here, we
report a case of acute cerebellitis after COVID-19 vaccine
administration. To the best of our knowledge, there is no similar case
reported before.