Abstract

SOLIS ARAMAYO, Marco; CHURIN, Lisandro; DUBINSKY, Diana  and  QUADRELLI, Silvia. Vacunación en pacientes con enfermedades reumatológicas. Rev. am. med. respir. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.1, pp.42-54. ISSN 1852-236X.

Patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases have twice the risk of having an infection with respect to any person of the same age and gender. So much so that life expectancy is shorter in people with rheumatoid arthritis than controls and the greater number of deaths are due, in part to infectious causes, many of which are of respiratory origin. Among the vaccines that patients with rheumatoid arthritis should receive are: the intramuscular influenza vaccine, this traditional vaccine is trivalent and provides protection against two strains of influenza A and one of influenza B, the pneumococcal vaccine, which currently exists two: 13-valent conjugate vaccine and 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine, human papillomavirus vaccines: a bivalent and a univalent and the hepatitis B virus vaccine for use in adults either as a single antigen vaccine or in combination with the hepatitis A virus. We believe that this updated immunization review in patients with rheumatic disease is necessary and will be very useful in our daily practice.

Keywords : Respiratory infections; Rheumatic disease; Immunosuppression; Prevention.

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