Pediatric Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients Demonstrate Greater Serological Response to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Than Adults

Pediatric Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients Demonstrate Greater Serological Response to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Than Adults

Background. Adult solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) have decreased responsiveness to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination and higher incidence of infection, but there are few data on the serological response in pediatric SOTR. The aim of this study wa...

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Main Authors: Tobias Laue, MD, Maria Pilar Ballester, MD, PhD, Lily Meoli, BSc, MSc, Carl Grabitz, MD, Eva Uson, BSc, Lorenzo D´Antiga, MD, Valerie McLin, MD, PD, Montserrat Pujadas, PhD, Ângela Carvalho-Gomes, PhD, Ivan Sahuco, Ariadna Bono, Federico D’Amico, PhD, Raffaela Viganò, Elena Diago, Beatriz Tormo Lanseros, Elvira Inglese, Dani Martinez Vazquez, Annelotte Broekhoven, Marjolein Kikkert, PhD, Shessy P. Torres Morales, MSc, Sebenzile K. Myeni, PhD, Mar Riveiro-Barciela, MD, PhD, Adriana Palom, PhD, Nicola Zeni, Alessandra Brocca, Annarosa Cussigh, Sara Cmet, MSc, Maria Desamparados Escudero-García, MD, PhD, Matteo Stocco, MSc, MSc, Leonardo Antonio Natola, Donatella Ieluzzi, Veronica Paon, Angelo Sangiovanni, MD, Elisa Farina, MD, Clara Dibenedetto, MD, Yolanda Sánchez-Torrijos, MD, PhD, Ana Lucena-Varela, MD, Eva Román, PhD, Elisabet Sánchez, Rubén Sánchez-Aldehuelo, MD, Julia López-Cardona, MD, Dhaarica Jeyanesan, MBBS, Alejandro Esquivel Morocho, RN, Itzel Canas-Perez, Christine Eastgate, BSc (Hons), Simone Di Cola, MD, Lucia Lapenna, MD, Giacomo Zaccherini, MD, PhD, Deborah Bongiovanni, PhD, Antonio Riva, PhD, CertPStat, CertGStat, Rajni Sharma, PhD, Hio Lam Phoebe Tsou, MRes, MSc, Nicola Harris, Paola Zanaga, Katia Sayaf, MSc, Sabir Hossain, MBBS, MSc, BSc, MRCP, Javier Crespo, MD, PhD, Mercedes Robles-Díaz, MD, PhD, Antonio Madejón, PhD, Helena Degroote, MD, PhD, Marko Korenjak, Xavier Verhelst, MD, PhD, Javier García-Samaniego, MD, PhD, Raúl J. Andrade, MD, PhD, Paula Iruzubieta, Gavin Wright, MBBS, PhD, FRCP, Paolo Caraceni, MD, Manuela Merli, MD, Vishal C. Patel, PhD, FRCP, Amir Gander, BSc, PhD, Agustín Albillos, MD, PhD, Germán Soriano, MD, Maria Francesca Donato, MD, David Sacerdoti, Pierluigi Toniutto, MD, Maria Buti, MD, PhD, Christophe Duvoux, MD, Paolo Antonio Grossi, MD, PhD, Thomas Berg, Wojciech G. Polak, MD, PhD, Massimo Puoti, Anna Bosch-Comas, PhD, Luca S. Belli, Patrizia Burra, MD, PhD, Francesco Paolo Russo, MD, PhD, Minneke Coenraad, MD, PhD, José Luis Calleja, Giovanni Perricone, MD, Shilpa Chokshi, PhD, Marina Berenguer, MD, Joan Clària, PhD, Richard Moreau, MD, Javier Fernández, MD, PhD, Vicente Arroyo, MD, PhD, Paolo Angeli, Cristina Sánchez-Garrido, MSc, Javier Ampuero, MD, PhD, MSc, Salvatore Piano, MD, PhD, Emanuele Nicastro, MD, PhD, FEBTM, Nathalie Rock, MD, Debbie Shawcross, BSc, MB.BS, PhD, FRCP, Lindsey Edwards, BSc, MSc, DLSHTM, PhD, Frauke Mutschler, MD, Anette Melk, MD, PhD, Gautam Mehta, FRCP, PhD, Ulrich Baumann, MD, Rajiv Jalan, MD, PhD
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Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2025-05-01
Series:Transplantation Direct
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001787
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Summary:Background. Adult solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) have decreased responsiveness to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination and higher incidence of infection, but there are few data on the serological response in pediatric SOTR. The aim of this study was to determine serological response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in pediatric liver (LT) and kidney transplant (KT) recipients and compare it with adult SOTR. Methods. A European, prospective, multicenter study was performed. Samples were taken at 7 and 32 wk following COVID-19 vaccination and serological endpoints were measured by ELISA. Results. A total of 42 pediatric (16 post-LT and 26 post-KT) and 117 adult (all post-LT) were included. All pediatric participants and 94% adult participants received mRNA vaccines. Paediatric SOTR patients had significantly higher anti-Spike IgG levels than adult participants at week 7 (114 220.7 [59 285.92–220 058.55] versus 8756.7 [5643.69–13 586.71], P < 0.0001) and week 32 (46 113.2 [10 992.91–193 436.14] versus 8207.0 [3561.20–18 913.43], P = 0.0032). No significant difference in week 7 anti-Spike IgG response was found between pediatric LT and KT (129 434.4 [51 888.64–322 869.69] versus 105 304.5 [39 910.20–277 849.50], P = 0.9854). No differences were seen between children and adults in the rate of decline of anti-Spike IgG between weeks 7 and 32 (P = 0.8000). Male sex and hemolytic-uremic syndrome or postischemic kidney disease were associated with lower anti-Spike IgG levels at week 7 in pediatric SOTR. Conclusions. Paediatric SOTR demonstrate greater SARS-CoV-2 vaccine responses than comparable adult SOTR patients. These data support efficacy and safety of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in child SOTR and may alleviate vaccine hesitancy in this patient group.
ISSN:2373-8731

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