Organ transplantation from deceased donors with vaccine-induced thrombosis and thrombocytopenia

UK Donor VITT Transplant Study Group; George H B Greenhall; Ines Ushiro-Lumb; Sue Pavord; Ian Currie; M Thamara P R Perera; Hermien Hartog; Quentin A Hill; Ismail Mohamed; Muhammad A Khurram; Reza Motallebzadeh; Gareth Jones; Aileen Marshall; Joerg-Matthias Pollok; Nicholas Torpey; Gavin J Pettigrew; Sanjay Mehra; Hemant Sharma; Francis Calder; Nicos Kessaris; Jay Nath; Debabrata Roy; Gabriel C Oniscu; Marc Clancy; Karthik Santhanakrishnan; Jorge Mascaro; Sern Lim; Marius Berman; Sue Madden; Lisa Mumford; Darius Mirza; Chris Watson; Olive McGowan; Douglas Thorburn; Rommel Ravanan; Beverley J Hunt; Chris J Callaghan; David J Roberts; John Forsythe

doi:10.1111/ajt.16735

Organ transplantation from deceased donors with vaccine-induced thrombosis and thrombocytopenia

Am J Transplant. 2021 Dec;21(12):4095-4097. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16735. Epub 2021 Jul 19.

Authors

UK Donor VITT Transplant Study Group; George H B Greenhall¹, Ines Ushiro-Lumb², Sue Pavord³, Ian Currie¹, M Thamara P R Perera⁴, Hermien Hartog⁴, Quentin A Hill⁵, Ismail Mohamed⁶, Muhammad A Khurram⁶, Reza Motallebzadeh⁷, Gareth Jones⁷, Aileen Marshall⁷, Joerg-Matthias Pollok⁷, Nicholas Torpey⁸, Gavin J Pettigrew⁸, Sanjay Mehra⁹, Hemant Sharma⁹, Francis Calder¹⁰, Nicos Kessaris¹⁰, Jay Nath¹¹, Debabrata Roy¹², Gabriel C Oniscu¹³, Marc Clancy¹⁴, Karthik Santhanakrishnan¹⁵, Jorge Mascaro⁴, Sern Lim⁴, Marius Berman¹⁶, Sue Madden¹, Lisa Mumford¹, Darius Mirza⁴, Chris Watson⁸, Olive McGowan¹, Douglas Thorburn⁷, Rommel Ravanan¹, Beverley J Hunt¹⁰, Chris J Callaghan¹, David J Roberts¹⁷, John Forsythe¹

Affiliations

¹ NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
² NHS Blood and Transplant, London, UK.
³ Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
⁵ St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
⁶ Royal London Hospital, London, UK.
⁷ Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
⁸ Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
⁹ Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
¹⁰ Guy's Hospital, London, UK.
¹¹ Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK.
¹² University Hospital, Coventry, UK.
¹³ Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹⁴ Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
¹⁵ Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK.
¹⁶ Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁷ NHS Blood and Transplant, Oxford, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: autoantibody; clinical research/practice; coagulation and hemostasis; donors and donation: donor follow-up; infection and infectious agents - viral: influenza; kidney transplantation/nephrology; liver transplantation/hepatology.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Humans
Organ Transplantation* / adverse effects
Thrombocytopenia* / chemically induced
Thrombosis* / etiology
Tissue Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement*
Vaccines*

Substances

Vaccines