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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13-14
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-12-12
pubmed:abstractText
An increased risk of invasive pneumococcal infection has been described among adult heart transplant (HT) recipients. Vaccination has been recommended before HT but the appropriate time for revaccination is not known. In a preliminary analysis of a prospective study involving a cohort of 32 HT recipients receiving daclizumab and triple immunosuppresion therapy, a progressive decline in pneumococcal polysaccharide antibody (anti-PPS) levels was observed during the first year after HT. One of the patients who was found to have a decrease in the levels of anti-PPS developed severe pneumococcal meningitis 20 months after HT. Before HT he had received non-conjugated 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine and showed a normal post-immunization anti-PPS production. The data suggest that long-term immunologic monitoring might be useful to recognize impairment of antibody responses under immunosuppressive therapy in HT.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1567-5769
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2027-30
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Antibody Formation, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Heart Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Immunoglobulin G, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Immunosuppression, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Immunosuppressive Agents, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Meningitis, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Monitoring, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Pneumococcal Infections, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Pneumococcal Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Polysaccharides, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Streptococcus pneumoniae, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Transplantation Conditioning, pubmed-meshheading:17161358-Vaccination
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Impaired anti-pneumococcal polysaccharide antibody production and invasive pneumococcal infection following heart transplantation.
pubmed:affiliation
Immunology Department, University General Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't