ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2021
Effect of Immunosuppression on the Immunogenicity of mRNA Vaccines to SARS-CoV-2 : A Prospective Cohort Study.
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- Growing attention of immunogenicity among patients with autoimmune diseases post-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: meta-analysis and systematic reviews of the current studies.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Systemic Therapy for Atopic Dermatitis in Children and Adolescents: A US Expert Consensus.Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Guideline
- The effects of methotrexate on the immune responses to the COVID-19 vaccines in the patients with immune-mediated inflammatory disease: A systematic review of clinical evidence.Transplant immunology · 2023Pooled it
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- A systematic and thematic analysis of the top 100 cited articles on mRNA vaccine indexed in Scopus database.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness and Durability of COVID-19 Vaccination in 9447 Patients With IBD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2022Pooled it
- SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A systemic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy of covid-19 vaccines in immunocompromised patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2022Pooled it
- French Vasculitis Study Group recommendations for the management of COVID-19 vaccination and prophylaxis in patients with systemic vasculitis.Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983) · 2022Guideline
- Humoral immune response to polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine in healthy participants receiving efgartigimod: a randomized, open-label, placebo-controlled, parallel-group phase 1 trial.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of a fourth dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases using disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: an emulated target trial.The Lancet. Rheumatology · 2024Trial
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- COVID-19 outcomes among vaccinated and unvaccinated patients receiving disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and biologic therapies: a retrospective multihospital cohort study.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Article
- Pre-vaccine sentinel antibodies predict blunted vaccine responses.Cell press blue · 2026Article
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- Vaccination in Oncology Patients: Evidence, Clinical Challenges, and Future Directions.Vaccines · 2026Review
- Risk of developing thyroid eye disease in patients with thyroid dysfunction that received a COVID-19 vaccination.Canadian journal of ophthalmology. Journal canadien d'ophtalmologie · 2026Article
- Humoral and cell mediated immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients with immune-mediated diseases.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Observational
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Abstract
backgroundPatients with chronic inflammatory disease (CID) treated with immunosuppressive medications have increased risk for severe COVID-19. Although mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccination provides protection in immunocompetent persons, immunogenicity in immunosuppressed patients with CID is unclear.
objectiveTo determine the immunogenicity of mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in patients with CID.
designProspective observational cohort study.
settingTwo U.S. CID referral centers.
participantsVolunteer sample of adults with confirmed CID eligible for early COVID-19 vaccination, including hospital employees of any age and patients older than 65 years. Immunocompetent participants were recruited separately from hospital employees. All participants received 2 doses of mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 between 10 December 2020 and 20 March 2021. Participants were assessed within 2 weeks before vaccination and 20 days after final vaccination. MEASUREMENTS: Anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) IgG
resultsMost of the 133 participants with CID (88.7%) and all 53 immunocompetent participants developed antibodies in response to mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, although some with CID developed numerically lower titers of anti-S IgG. Anti-S IgG antibody titers after vaccination were lower in participants with CID receiving glucocorticoids ( LIMITATIONS: Small sample that lacked demographic diversity, and residual confounding.
conclusionCompared with nonusers, patients with CID treated with glucocorticoids and BCDT seem to have lower SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-induced antibody responses. These preliminary findings require confirmation in a larger study. PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
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