SynthesisThe Journal of infection2021
COVID-19 in immunocompromised patients: A systematic review of cancer, hematopoietic cell and solid organ transplant patients.
Synthesis in The Journal of infection, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07243236 ("Assessment of the Impact of Vaccine Funding by the National Health Insurance on Vaccination Coverage Among Patients Targeted by Current Vaccination Recommendations and Followed in Outpatient Consultations in Ile-de-France Region in France""), which is not on this map. Cited by 143 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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"Assessment of the Impact of Vaccine Funding by the National Health Insurance on Vaccination Coverage Among Patients Targeted by Current Vaccination Recommendations and Followed in Outpatient Consultations in Ile-de-France Region in France""
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143 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Risk Factors for Pediatric Critical COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2024Pooled it
- Disparities in COVID-19 mortality amongst the immunosuppressed: A systematic review and meta-analysis for enhanced disease surveillance.The Journal of infection · 2024Pooled it
- The efficacy of tixagevimab/cilgavimab (Evusheld) in prophylaxis and treatment of COVID-19 in immunocompromised patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of medical research · 2024Pooled it
- The impact of immunocompromise on outcomes of COVID-19 in children and young people-a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Pooled it
- Booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines for patients with haematological and solid cancer: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis.European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) · 2022Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of immunologic response after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in solid organ transplant recipients.The Journal of infection · 2022Pooled it
- Clinical characteristics and outcome of coronavirus disease 2019 infection in patients with solid organ transplants: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of infection and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Stem Cells Therapy for COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
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- Broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies derived from mRNA LNP immunization exhibit potent neutralizing ability against JN.1, KP.3.1.1 and XEC new Omicron variants.The Journal of general virology · 2026Article
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- Outcomes of immunocompromised and non-immunocompromised patients in the ICU diverge late in the pandemic.PloS one · 2026Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on Recipients of Solid Organ Transplants: A Cohort Study of In-Hospital Outcomes From the Canadian Organ Replacement Register.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2026Article
- Prevalence, clinical features, and seasonal patterns of SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and HRSV in patients with a history of kidney transplantation in Iran.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Time to anti-cancer treatment resumption after SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with active haematological diseases undergoing combined antiviral treatments.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2025Observational
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on an Immunocompromised Patient with Allogeneic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant: A Dual Perspective from Patient and Physician Standpoints.Oncology and therapy · 2025Article
- Immunosuppressed patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in ICU: clinical characteristics and factors influencing outcomes.Pneumonia (Nathan Qld.) · 2025Article
- When and for Whom Does Intensive Care Unit Admission Change the Prognosis in Oncology?-A Scoping Review.Cancers · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe clinical impact of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), in immunocompromised patients has not been systematically evaluated.
methodsWe reviewed current literature reporting on COVID-19 in cancer (CA), hematopoietic cell (HCT), and solid organ transplant (SOT) patients and compared their clinical data and outcomes to the general population. For adult CA, HCT and SOT patients, an extensive search strategy retrieved all articles published until July 20, 2020 by combining the terms coronavirus, coronavirus infection, COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 in PubMed, Cochrane, and Web of Science, and following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis guidelines. For the pediatric CA cohort, a global COVID-19 registry was used. For the general population cohort, a large meta-analysis was used to compare pooled prevalence estimates, and two large meta-analyses were utilized to serve as pooled comparators for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
findingsCompared to the general population, adult CA and SOT patients with COVID-19 had higher comorbidities, greater levels of inflammatory markers at diagnosis, and higher rates of intensive care and hospital mortality. Pediatric CA patients and HCT patients with COVID-19 tended to have clinical presentations and outcomes similar to the general population.
interpretationTo our knowledge, this is the first systematic review evaluating COVID-19 phenotype and outcomes in immunocompromised patients and comparing them to the general population, which shows that hospital outcomes appear to be worse in adult CA and SOT patients, potentially due to their higher co-morbidity burden.
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