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- Title
Vaccination of Solid-Organ Transplantation Candidates.
- Authors
Chow, Jennifer; Golan, Yoav
- Abstract
Verifying immunization status and updating vaccinations are important steps in the evaluation of patients who are solidorgan transplant candidates because the potential benefits of vaccination outweigh the risk of adverse events. Because patients with end-organ disease, such as end-stage renal disease and cirrhosis, have reduced immune responses to many vaccines, vaccination should be performed as early as possible during the course of these diseases. Furthermore, it is particularly important for live vaccines to be updated during the pretransplant assessment because such vaccines are contraindicated once a patient is maintained on immunosuppression. Current information on vaccination for adult solid-organ transplant candidates is reviewed.
- Subjects
VACCINATION; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; IMMUNIZATION; KIDNEY diseases; CIRRHOSIS of the liver; IMMUNE response; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; PREVENTIVE medicine
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2009, Vol 49, Issue 10, p1550
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/644734