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. 2022 Jul 7;76(3):e426–e438. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac404

Table 2.

Patients Were Grouped into 4 Different Subgroups According to Expected Immune Impairment Attributable to Their Immunosuppressive Treatment

HM (n = 100) ST (n = 114) ID (n = 79) ND (n = 82)
No therapy 20 (20.0%) 5 (4.6%) 0 (0%) 4 (4.9%)
Low riska 30 (30.0%) 57 (52.3%) 1 (1.3%) 24 (29.3%)
Medium riskb 15 (15.0%) 47 (43.1%) 37 (46.8%) 21 (25.6%)
High riskc 35 (35.0%) 0 (0%) 41 (51.9%) 33 (40.2%)

Abbreviations: HM, hematological malignancies; ID, immunorheumatological diseases; ND, neurological disorders; ST, solid tumors.

Low risk: anti-CD30 MoAb, checkpoint inhibitors MoAb; target therapies; hypomethylation agents, or corticosteroids.

Medium risk: chemotherapy (ongoing or in the last 6 months); Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors; BCL-2 inhibitors; anti-CD38 MoAb without immunomodulatory drugs (IMIDs); immunosuppressive agents like methotrexate, mycophenolate mofetil, azathioprine, and cyclosporine.

High risk: Anti-B-cell therapy (ongoing or in the last 12 months): anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) or anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies); allogeneic HSCT.