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Immune response to influenza vaccination in ESRD patients undergoing hemodialysis vs. hemodiafiltration

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PLoS One. 2020 Feb 3;15(2):e0227719. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227719. eCollection 2020. [h=1]Immune response to influenza vaccination in ESRD patients undergoing hemodialysis vs. hemodiafiltration.[/h]
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] [h=4]BACKGROUND:[/h] On-line hemodiafiltration (HDF) clears more azotemic toxins compared to high-flux hemodialysis (HD). The response to vaccination is impaired in dialysis patients. We wished to determine whether the immune responses to influenza vaccine in dialysis patients treated by HDF were stronger than those treated by HD.
[h=4]MATERIALS AND METHODS:[/h] We conducted a prospective cohort study in chronic dialysis patients during the 2016 and 2017 influenza seasons. All participants received a single standard dose of trivalent influenza vaccine, and we studied the elicited humoral immune response by hemagglutination inhibition test, and cell-mediated immune response by enumeration of lymphocyte cellular markers and proliferation assays.
[h=4]RESULTS:[/h] We immunized 60 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients: 42 (70%) treated with HD and 18 patients (30%) with HDF. The median (interquartile range) age was 65.0 (55.0-74.5) years. All patients developed seroprotection to at least one influenza vaccine strain at one month post-vaccination, and did not differ between groups. By logistic regression, age was the only factor independently associated with seroconversion to all vaccine strains (odds ratio 0.89, 95% confidence interval 0.80-0.98; p = 0.022). Seroprotection to all vaccine strains was sustained for longer in patients treated with HDF, and the results remained the same after age adjustment. For cellular immune response, patients who seroconverted to all vaccine strains had higher CD38+ T cell subpopulations pre-vaccination. Patients treated by HDF had higher lymphocyte proliferation to circulating influenza A strains.
[h=4]CONCLUSIONS:[/h] Seroconversion to all influenza vaccine strains was associated with age. Patients treated with HDF demonstrated seroprotection was sustained for longer compared to those treated by HD and greater lymphocyte proliferation to circulating influenza A strains. These encouraging results for HDF require confirmation in a larger dialysis population.
[h=4]TRIAL REGISTRATION:[/h] ClinicalTrial.gov, NCT04122222.


PMID: 32012159 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227719
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