TY - JOUR
T1 - Incomplete vaccination coverage in European children with end-stage kidney disease prior to renal transplantation
AU - Höcker, Britta
AU - Aguilar, Martin
AU - Schnitzler, Paul
AU - Pape, Lars
AU - Dello Strologo, Luca
AU - Webb, Nicholas J.A.
AU - Bald, Martin
AU - Genc, Gurkan
AU - Billing, Heiko
AU - König, Jens
AU - Büscher, Anja
AU - Kemper, Markus J.
AU - Marks, Stephen D.
AU - Pohl, Martin
AU - Wigger, Marianne
AU - Topaloglu, Rezan
AU - Rieger, Susanne
AU - Krupka, Kai
AU - Bruckner, Thomas
AU - Fichtner, Alexander
AU - Tönshoff, Burkhard
PY - 2017/10/5
Y1 - 2017/10/5
N2 - Background: Because infections constitute a major cause of morbidity and mortality in paediatric renal allograft recipients, avoidance of preventable systemic infections by vaccination before transplantation is of utmost importance. However, data on the completeness of vaccinations and factors associated with incomplete vaccination coverage are scarce. Methods: Within the framework of the Cooperative European Paediatric Renal Transplant Initiative (CERTAIN), we therefore performed a multi-centre, multi-national, retrospective study investigating the vaccination coverage before transplantation of 254 European children with end-stage renal disease (mean age 10.0 ± 5.6 years). Results: Only 22 out of 254 patients (8.7%) presented complete vaccination coverage. In particular, the respective vaccination coverage against human papillomavirus (27.3%), pneumococci (42.0%), and meningococci (47.9%) was low. Patients with complete pneumococcal vaccination coverage had numerically less lower respiratory tract infections during the first 3 years post-transplant than children without vaccination or with an incomplete status (16.4% vs 27.7%, p = 0.081). Vaccine-preventable diseases post-transplant were 4.0 times more frequently in unvaccinated than in vaccinated patients. Factors associated with an incomplete vaccination coverage were non-Caucasian ethnicity (OR 9.21, p = 0.004), chronic dialysis treatment before transplantation (OR 6.18, p = 0.001), and older age at transplantation (OR 1.33, p < 0.001). Conclusions: The vaccination coverage in paediatric kidney transplant candidates is incomplete. Paediatric nephrologists, together with primary-care staff and patients’ families, should therefore make every effort to improve vaccination rates before kidney transplantation.
AB - Background: Because infections constitute a major cause of morbidity and mortality in paediatric renal allograft recipients, avoidance of preventable systemic infections by vaccination before transplantation is of utmost importance. However, data on the completeness of vaccinations and factors associated with incomplete vaccination coverage are scarce. Methods: Within the framework of the Cooperative European Paediatric Renal Transplant Initiative (CERTAIN), we therefore performed a multi-centre, multi-national, retrospective study investigating the vaccination coverage before transplantation of 254 European children with end-stage renal disease (mean age 10.0 ± 5.6 years). Results: Only 22 out of 254 patients (8.7%) presented complete vaccination coverage. In particular, the respective vaccination coverage against human papillomavirus (27.3%), pneumococci (42.0%), and meningococci (47.9%) was low. Patients with complete pneumococcal vaccination coverage had numerically less lower respiratory tract infections during the first 3 years post-transplant than children without vaccination or with an incomplete status (16.4% vs 27.7%, p = 0.081). Vaccine-preventable diseases post-transplant were 4.0 times more frequently in unvaccinated than in vaccinated patients. Factors associated with an incomplete vaccination coverage were non-Caucasian ethnicity (OR 9.21, p = 0.004), chronic dialysis treatment before transplantation (OR 6.18, p = 0.001), and older age at transplantation (OR 1.33, p < 0.001). Conclusions: The vaccination coverage in paediatric kidney transplant candidates is incomplete. Paediatric nephrologists, together with primary-care staff and patients’ families, should therefore make every effort to improve vaccination rates before kidney transplantation.
KW - End-stage kidney disease
KW - Paediatric transplant candidate
KW - Post-transplant lower respiratory tract infections
KW - Renal transplantation
KW - Vaccination
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U2 - 10.1007/s00467-017-3776-3
DO - 10.1007/s00467-017-3776-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030726178
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Pediatric Nephrology
JF - Pediatric Nephrology
SN - 0931-041X
ER -