Ramin Sam, Laura Rankin, Ifeoma Ulasi, Luc Frantzen, Dorothea Nitsch, David Henner, Donald Molony, John Wagner, Jing Chen, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Andrew Howard, Ralph Atkinson, Daniel Landry, Stephen O Pastan, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
Vaccinating patients receiving dialysis may prevent morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. The National Forum of End-Stage Renal Disease Networks (the Forum) published a revised vaccination toolkit in 2021 to update evidence and recommendations on vaccination for patients receiving dialysis. Significant changes in the last 10 years include more data supporting the use of a high-dose influenza vaccine, the introduction of the Heplisav-B vaccine for hepatitis B, and changes in pneumococcal vaccines, including the approval of the PCV15 and PCV20 to replace the PCV13 and PPSV23 vaccines...
March 2024: Kidney medicine