Effect of the Shingles Vaccine in Altering Clinical Shingles after Heart Transplantation

Herpes zoster, otherwise known as shingles, can be a devastating complication after heart transplantation due to persistent and severe herpetic neuralgia. Our heart transplant patients are recommended to have the shingles vaccine prior to heart transplantation, but this is not always achieved. We sought to assess whether the shingles vaccine did indeed prevent clinical shingles development after heart transplantation.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 31, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: M. Kittleson, J. Patel, D. Chang, K. Nishihara, A. Shen, A. Velleca, M. Hamilton, P. Zakowski, L. Czer, F. Esmailian, J. Kobashigawa Tags: (1223) Source Type: research