ACUTE CEREBELLAR-ATAXIA AFTER IMMUNIZATION WITH RECOMBINANT HEPATITIS-B VACCINE

We report one woman with acute cerebellar ataxia (ACA), a well-defined clinical syndrome, which occurred 10 days after the second vaccinatio n with recombinant hepatitis B vaccine. The patient had no previous sy mptoms or signs of neurological disease and there was no evidence of n eurologic disease in the family history. Within nine months the sympto ms remitted completely according to other reports of ACA. As there was a close temporal connection and no noticeable other cause we assume a causal link between the vaccination and the disease. As far as we kno wn this is the first case of ACA after hepatitis B vaccination.