Immunogenicity and influence on disease activity of recombinant zoster vaccine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with DMARDs

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OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to determine the immunogenicity and the influence on disease activity of an adjuvanted recombinant varicella-zoster virus (VZV) subunit vaccine (RZV) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

METHODS: This prospective longitudinal study enrolled 53 patients with RA (aged ≥50 years) treated with DMARDs (conventional synthetic (cs)DMARDs 20, biological (b)DMARDs 23 and targeted synthetic (ts)DMARDs 10) and 10 control individuals. The participants received two intramuscular RZV 2 months apart. VZV-specific CD4+ T cell responses (cell-mediated immunity; CMI) and IgG antibody responses (humoral immunity; HI) were assessed at 0 and 3 months after the first RZV administration using flow cytometry and enzyme immunoassay, respectively. Disease activity (Disease Activity Score 28-C reactive protein and Clinical Disease Activity Index), flares and adverse events were monitored for 6 months after the first vaccination.

RESULTS: VZV-specific CMI and HI significantly increased in the three DMARDs-treated patients with RA after RZV administration compared with the corresponding prevaccination values (p<0.001-0.014), and the magnitudes and fold-increases of those responses were not significantly different among the three DMARDs-treated patients with RA. Furthermore, the vaccine response rates of CMI and HI were not significantly different between csDMARDs-treated patients and b-DMARDs or ts-DMARDs-treated patients. Meanwhile, no significant increases in disease activity indices or adverse events were observed in these patients during the 6-month follow-up period after the first vaccination. RZV-induced RA flares occurred in two patients (3.8%) but were mild and controllable.

CONCLUSION: RZV is robustly immunogenic and has a clinically acceptable safety profile in elderly patients with RA receiving DMARDs.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

RMD open - 10(2024), 1 vom: 21. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kojima, Shotaro [VerfasserIn]
Iwamoto, Taro [VerfasserIn]
Kobayashi, Yoshihisa [VerfasserIn]
Kato, Manami [VerfasserIn]
Takizawa, Fumiyoshi [VerfasserIn]
Ida, Tomoaki [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Junya [VerfasserIn]
Toda, Yosuke [VerfasserIn]
Miyachi, Kazusa [VerfasserIn]
Iwata, Arifumi [VerfasserIn]
Furuta, Shunsuke [VerfasserIn]
Ikeda, Kei [VerfasserIn]
Nakajima, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antirheumatic Agents
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Herpes Zoster Vaccine
Journal Article
Vaccination
Vaccines, Synthetic

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Date Completed 26.02.2024

Date Revised 26.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003902

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368781593