438410login-checkCOVID-19 Vaccination Safe, Lowers Risk of Infection in Heart Transplant Recipients |
These findings suggest the importance of COVID-19 vaccination for patients with OHT.
New findings suggest patients with orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 are at greater risk of severe infection and death in comparison to immunocompetent individuals, making COVID-19 vaccination an important priority.
In fact, COVID-19 vaccination had associations with fewer symptomatic COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths and no heart transplant-specific adverse events.
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438410login-checkCOVID-19 Vaccination Safe, Lowers Risk of Infection in Heart Transplant Recipients |