Adjustment of Immunosuppressants to Facilitate Anti-COVID-19 Antibody Production after mRNA Vaccination in Liver Transplant Recipients

Liver transplant recipients are immunocompromised and have low immunogenicity to produce antibodies in anti-COVID-19 vaccination. Whether immunosuppressant adjustment could facilitate anti-COVID-19 antibody production in anti-COVID-19 mRNA vaccination is undetermined. Our patients were informed to temporarily suspend mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) or everolimus (EVR) for 2 weeks during both the 1st and 2nd doses of Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine. A total of 183 recipients receiving two doses of Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine were enrolled and grouped into tacrolimus monotherapy (MT, n = 41), and dual therapy with non-adjustment (NA, n = 23), single suspension (SS, n = 19) and double suspension (DS, n = 100) of MMF/EVR in two-dose mRNA vaccination. A total of 155 (84.7%) patients had a humoral response to vaccines in this study. The humoral response rates were 60.9%, 89.5%, 91.0% and 80.5% in NA, SS, DS, and MT group patients, respectively (p = 0.003). Multivariate analysis showed that favorable factors for humoral response were temporary suspension of MMF/EVR and monotherapy, and unfavorable factors were deceased donor liver transplantation, WBC count < 4000/uL, lymphocyte < 20% and tacrolimus trough level ≥ 6.8 ng/mL. In conclusion, temporary two-week suspension of anti-proliferation immunosuppressants could create a window to facilitate antibody production during anti-COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. This concept may be applied to other vaccinations in liver transplant recipients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Viruses - 15(2023), 3 vom: 04. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lee, Wei-Chen [VerfasserIn]
Hung, Hao-Chien [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jin-Chiao [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Chung-Guei [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Po-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Po-Wen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yu-Chao [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Chih-Hsien [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Tsung-Han [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Chen-Fang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ting-Jung [VerfasserIn]
Chou, Hong-Shiue [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Kun-Ming [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2019-nCoV Vaccine mRNA-1273
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Antibodies, Viral
COVID-19
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Everolimus
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Immunosuppressant
Immunosuppressive Agents
Journal Article
Liver transplantation
Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine
Mycophenolic Acid
RNA, Messenger
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tacrolimus
Vaccine
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Date Completed 31.03.2023

Date Revised 14.04.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/v15030678

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354973266