Sex: F
Vaccine: PNC13
Symptoms: Computerised tomogram, Heart rate increased, Malaise, Pneumonia, Pneumonia pneumococcal
Clinical narrative: chest pain; sinus infection; asthmatic bronchitis; Adrenal Insufficiency; sick; Drug ineffective; double pneumococcal pneumonia. One of her lungs collapsed; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer reporting for herself. This consumer reported similar events for 2 patients. This is 1st of 2 reports.   A 56-year-old female patient received pneumococcal 13-val conj vac (dipht crm197 protein) (PREVNAR 13) via an unspecified route of administration at single dose on 27Apr2016 for immunisation.   The patient medical history was not reported.  There were no concomitant medications.   The patient experienced adrenal insufficiency in Apr2017 with outcome of unknown, double pneumococcal pneumonia and one of her lungs collapsed on 27Apr2016 with outcome of unknown, sick on an unspecified date  in 2017 with outcome of unknown, she got worse on an unspecified date with outcome of unknown, chest pain on an unspecified date with outcome of unknown, sinus infection on an unspecified date with outcome of unknown, asthmatic bronchitis on an unspecified date with outcome of recovered.  No investigation assessment. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of double pneumococcal pneumonia one of her lungs collapsed and  sinus infection. Course of events: The patient reported to the (Institute name) at the time, and it may be too late to do any good, but she wanted to report that after receiving Prevnar 13 vaccine from MD office, a week later, she started getting symptoms and eventually was diagnosed with double pneumococcal pneumonia. Another girl at his office got the same thing. She was sick for 3 months after that. Four days after receiving the vaccine, she had to go to her daughter's graduation and she got worse after that.  She said she would have turned 57 in Aug2016 that year. MD said she received contaminated batch and another girl in office got pneumococcal pneumonia from the same time period. The caller remarks that the other girl that received the product had HIV also.  She thought she had single pneumonia and it was double.  One of her lungs collapsed, that is how they diagnosed her. She had a lung Xray half a week later after she got the shot in 2017. The X-ray technician recognized pneumonia and she also told her she had been having chest pain. They sent it to the radiologist to read it and it was confirmed.   They performed a bronchoscopy in Aug2016 (as reported) and she does not have any specific results. Before this, several times, her heart rate when up past 125.  By then, she had been on so many antibiotics and when she got the bronchoscopy, she was healed. They wanted to do a sputum test. She turned in one and it did turn up something and the second one, she never turned it in.  She should have so they could tell what type it is. The doctor said it was probably pneumococcal. It was not definitive, but just pneumonia. He prescribed so many antibiotics. She could only remember Bactrim and Amoxicillin. He gave her some strong ones. She did not have the NDC, Lot, or expiration of any of the antibiotic products she took.  She got 3 CT scans and she still has the CD's for them.  She had recovered with lasting effects after receiving the vaccine because for the bronchoscopy, they sprayed stuff in her nose to numb it. This caused her to get a sinus infection. She does not have the NDC, Lot or expiration or name of the product that was sprayed in her nose. She stated it lasted a couple of months. She had to take a lot of Prednisone for it. She did not have the NDC, Lot or expiration for the Prednisone she took.  She said she has been using Prednisone since then and now has adrenal Insufficiency which was diagnosed Apr2017.   She gets asthmatic bronchitis when she gets a virus - like once a year, but she was completely healthy when she got the vaccine.   She stated she should have called at the time that she reported it to the (Institute name) but she assumed they would tell Pfizer. They emailed her back more questions and she responded and they closed the case.  A Product Complaint was filed.  Information on the lot/batch number has been requested.