Urticaria exacerbations and adverse reactions in patients with chronic urticaria receiving COVID-19 vaccination: Results of the UCARE COVAC-CU study

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  • Emek Kocatürk
  • Pascale Salameh
  • Esra Sarac
  • Carolina E. Vera Ayala
  • Torsten Zuberbier
  • Luis Felipe Ensina
  • Todor A. Popov
  • Martijn B.A. van Doorn
  • Ana Maria Giménez-Arnau
  • Riccardo Asero
  • Paulo Ricardo Criado
  • Fernando M. Aarestrup
  • Zainab AbdulHameed Ansari
  • Salma Al Abri
  • Mona Al Ahmad
  • Bushra Al Hinai
  • Anastasiia Allenova
  • Maryam Al-Nesf
  • Sabine Altrichter
  • Rand Arnaout
  • Joanna Bartosińska
  • Andrea Bauer
  • Jonathan A. Bernstein
  • Mojca Bizjak
  • Hanna Bonnekoh
  • Laurence Bouillet
  • Zenon Brzoza
  • Ana Caroline Calvalcanti Dela Bianca Melo
  • Fernanda L. Campinhos
  • Emily Carne
  • Saleema Cherichi Purayil
  • Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda
  • Herberto Jose Chong-Neto
  • George Christoff
  • Niall Conlon
  • Roberta Fachini Jardim Criado
  • Klara Cvenkel
  • Ebru Damadoglu
  • Inna Danilycheva
  • Cascia Day
  • Laurence de Montjoye
  • Semra Demir
  • Silvia Mariel Ferucci
  • Daria Fomina
  • Atsushi Fukunaga
  • Elizabeth Garcia
  • Asli Gelincik
  • Joe Hannah Göbel
  • Kiran Godse
  • Margarida Gonçalo
  • Maia Gotua
  • Clive Grattan
  • Agata Gugala
  • Carole Guillet
  • Ali Fuat Kalyoncu
  • Gul Karakaya
  • Alicja Kasperska-Zając
  • Constance H. Katelaris
  • Maryam Khoshkhui
  • Andreas Kleinheinz
  • Marta Kolacinska-Flont
  • Pavel Kolkhir
  • Mitja Košnik
  • Dorota Krasowska
  • Muthu Sendhil Kumaran
  • Izabela Kuprys-Lipinska
  • Marcin Kurowski
  • Elizaveta V. Kuznetsova
  • Désirée Larenas-Linnemann
  • Marina S. Lebedkina
  • Youngsoo Lee
  • Michael P. Makris
  • René Maximiliano Gómez
  • Iman Nasr
  • Sophia Neisinger
  • Yoshiko Oda
  • Rabia Öztaş Kara
  • Esther Bastos Palitot
  • Niki Papapostolou
  • Claudio Alberto Salvador Parisi
  • David Pesque
  • Jonathan Peter
  • Elena Petkova
  • Katie Ridge
  • Michael Rudenko
  • Krzysztof Rutkowski
  • Sarbjit S. Saini
  • Andac Salman
  • Jorge Sanchez
  • Bülent Şekerel
  • Sofia A. Serdotetskova
  • Faradiba S. Serpa
  • Bahar Sevimli Dikicier
  • Nikitas Sidiropoulos
  • Agnieszka Sikora
  • Jennifer Astrup Sørensen
  • Angele Soria
  • Ozlem Su Kucuk
  • Sherin Rahim Thalappil
  • Katarzyna Tomaszewska
  • Gulseren Tuncay
  • Derya Unal
  • Solange Valle
  • Esmee van Lindonk
  • Christian Vestergaard
  • Aleksandr Vitchuk
  • Paraskevi Xepapadaki
  • Young Min Ye
  • Anna Zalewska-Janowska
  • Mateusz Zamlynski
  • Marcus Maurer

Background: Concern about disease exacerbations and fear of reactions after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccinations are common in chronic urticaria (CU) patients and may lead to vaccine hesitancy. Objective: We assessed the frequency and risk factors of CU exacerbation and adverse reactions in CU patients after COVID-19 vaccination. Methods: COVAC-CU is an international multicenter study of Urticaria Centers of Reference and Excellence (UCAREs) that retrospectively evaluated the effects of COVID-19 vaccination in CU patients aged ≥18 years and vaccinated with ≥1 dose of any COVID-19 vaccine. We evaluated CU exacerbations and severe allergic reactions as well as other adverse events associated with COVID-19 vaccinations and their association with various CU parameters. Results: Across 2769 COVID-19–vaccinated CU patients, most (90%) received at least 2 COVID-19 vaccine doses, and most patients received CU treatment and had well-controlled disease. The rate of COVID-19 vaccination–induced CU exacerbation was 9%. Of 223 patients with CU exacerbation after the first dose, 53.4% experienced recurrence of CU exacerbation after the second dose. CU exacerbation most often started <48 hours after vaccination (59.2%), lasted for a few weeks or less (70%), and was treated mainly with antihistamines (70.3%). Factors that increased the risk for COVID-19 vaccination–induced CU exacerbation included female sex, disease duration shorter than 24 months, having chronic spontaneous versus inducible urticaria, receipt of adenovirus viral vector vaccine, having nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug/aspirin intolerance, and having concerns about getting vaccinated; receiving omalizumab treatment and Latino/Hispanic ethnicity lowered the risk. First-dose vaccine–related adverse effects, most commonly local reactions, fever, fatigue, and muscle pain, were reported by 43.5% of CU patients. Seven patients reported severe allergic reactions. Conclusions: COVID-19 vaccination leads to disease exacerbation in only a small number of CU patients and is generally well tolerated.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Vol/bind152
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)1095-1106
ISSN0091-6749
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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