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. 2023 Jun 24;11(7):1139. doi: 10.3390/vaccines11071139

Table 1.

Literature reporting health outcomes for COVID-19 infection in patients with amyloidosis.

Author, Year Study Period Cohort and Subgroups Location of Study Vaccination Rate COVID-19 Infection Rate Clinical Outcomes
Wood et al., 2020 [15] April–July 2020 Hematological malignancy with COVID-19 250 pts), of which 40 pts (16%) had MM or AL Worldwide (65% in North America) N/A N/A 30/37 (81.1%) with moderate to severe infection,
11/39 (28% mortality)
Lewis et al., 2022 [16] January 2020–April 2022 ATTR (152 pts) and AL (103 pts) Alberta, Canada ATTR 137/152 (90.6%) vaccinated.
AL 84/103 (81.6%) vaccinated.
ATTR 78/131 (59.5%) tested 4/78 (5.1%) PCR +ve
AL 42/60 (70%) tested
11/42 (26.2%) PCR +ve
6/15 (40%) PCR +ve patients were unvaccinated
4 patients required hospital admission (2 AL patients both vaccinated; 2 ATTR patients both unvaccinated)
1 death caused directly by COVID-19 infection (ATTR patient, not vaccinated)
Ho et al., 2023 [17] January 2020–August 2021 MM and AL (9225 pts) United States 187/9225 (2%) (174 MM.; 13AL) 187/9225 (2%) (174 MM.; 13 AL) 3/13 (23.1%) with severe infection,
4/13 (30.8%) required hospital admission,
1/13 (7.8%) required ICU admission,
9 patient deaths (9 MM.; 0 AL)
2 patients (17%) with severe infection; 0 deaths