COVID-19

A joint analysis of patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy was conducted using the OnCovid (NCT04393974) and ESMO CoCARE registries, this assessed SARS-CoV-2 outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients with cancer and whether prior immune-related adverse events affected these outcomes. In this touchIMMUNOLOGY interview, we spoke with Dr Alessio Cortellini (Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, […]

The EULAR Coronavirus Vaccine (COVAX) physician-reported registry registered patients with pre-existing rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases, who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. touchIMMUNOLOGY were delighted to speak with Prof Patrick Durez (Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc – Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels, Belgium) to discuss the aims, methodology and findings of this study looking at factors associated […]

The GI-COVID-19 study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04691895) was a prospective, multicenter, controlled study investigating the prevalence of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. We were delighted to talk with Dr. Giovanni Marasco (Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy) to discuss the aims, methodology and findings in terms of prevalence of GI symptoms in patients with COVID-19 […]

The VIP study was a multicentre, prospective, case-control study, investigating whether immunosuppressive treatments reduced antibody and T-cell responses in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) after a third COVID-19 vaccine dose. In this touchIMMUNOLOGY interview, we speak with Dr. James Alexander (Imperial College London, London, UK) to discuss the aims, methodology and findings from the […]

In some countries, patients considered vulnerable have received 3rd/4th COVID-19 vaccine doses (V3/V4). This study, presented by Stavros Dimitriadis (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), explores the immune response to V4 in a mixed disease cohort of immunosuppressed patients including liver transplant recipients and patients with autoimmune hepatitis. This study also focused on individuals with absent […]

We caught up with Dr James Alexander (Imperial College London, London, UK) to discuss the impact of immunosuppressant drugs on COVID-19 vaccine responses in patients with IBD. The abstract ‘COVID-19 vaccine-induced antibody responses are impaired in Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients treated with infliximab, ustekinumab or tofacitinib, but not thiopurines or vedolizumab’ (Presentation no. OP21) was […]

TouchIMMUNOLOGY were delighted to talk with Professor Luis Ostrosky (Infectious diseases, UTHealth, Houston, TX, USA) around his presentation titled ‘COVID-19: Update on Therapeutics‘, which was presented at the ACR Convergence, 3-9 November 2021. This information is brought to you by Touch Medical Media and is not sponsored by, nor a part of, the American College […]