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Humoral response to heterologous prime‐booster vaccination in heart transplant recipients aged 18 to 70 years primed with a viral vector SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccine

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Abstract

Background

Solid organ transplant recipients have demonstrated a blunted immune response to standard 2-dose vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. This study sought to determine the humoral response to heterologous booster vaccination (viral vector vaccine dose 1 and 2 + mRNA booster).

Methods

Heart transplant recipients, aged 18 to 70 years of age who initially received two doses of the viral vector ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine followed by a BNT162b2 mRNA booster were recruited. A detectable antibody response in the absence of prior SARS-CoV-2 was the primary outcome measured. This was defined as an anti-spike titre of ≥0.8 U/mL on the Elecsys anti-SARS-CoV-2 S immunoassay.

Results

A total of 80 heart transplant patients (mean age 49±13 years, 28% female) were included. Blood samples were drawn at a median of 30 (IQR 28–33) days after the BNT162b2 mRNA booster. The frequency of a detectable antibody response increased from 37.5% (n = 30) after dose 2 to 56% (n = 45) post dose 3 (p<0.001). A non-detectable antibody response was significantly more common in recipients with a shorter time interval from transplantation (p<0.001), lower likelihood of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (p = 0.003) and in those prescribed a triple versus dual immunosuppressant regime (p = 0.009) and a tacrolimus versus cyclosporine based-regimen (p = 0.007).

Conclusion

Despite heterologous prime-booster vaccination 44% of this vulnerable population ultimately continue to have no detectable antibodies.

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