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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages 1805-1809Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00564.x
Keywords
hepatitis C virus; influenza vaccination; liver transplantation
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA16156] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK52071] Funding Source: Medline
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Influenza vaccination has reduced life-threatening complications from influenza virus infection in adult liver transplant recipients. We evaluated changes in aminotransferase level and immunogenicity of influenza vaccination in liver transplant recipients. Fifty-one liver transplant recipients were administered a standard dose of the 2002-2003 inactivated trivalent influenza vaccine. ALT values were measured at baseline, 1 week and 4-6 weeks postvaccination. Antibody responses to each component of the vaccine were measured at baseline and after 4-6 weeks by a hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) assay. Response was defined as an HAI titer greater than or equal to1:40 and/or a 4-fold increase in antibody titers from baseline. An ALT elevation was defined as a rise of greater than or equal to50% from baseline. There was no difference in the median rise in ALT value between seroconverters and nonseroconverters. A significant number of recipients developed potentially protective antibody titers (p-value < 0.0001). At less than 4 months post transplantation, 1/7 (14%), at 4-12 months, 6/9 (67%), and after 12 months, 30/35 (86%) subjects responded to the H1 strain. Of 51 recipients, one HCV (-) recipients vaccinated within 3 months of transplantation developed acute cellular rejection. Influenza virus vaccination is not associated with allograft rejection or ALT flares in liver transplant recipients.
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