Avellino, transplant patients also vaccinated at Moscati
Vulnerable and high-risk patients being treated in the Hematology, Nephrology and Dialysis Units: these are people who have undergone a bone marrow or kidney transplant and who continue to be followed by the professionals of the “San Giuseppe Moscati” Hospital Trust in AVELLINO for both follow-up and therapies. One hundred and sixty transplant recipients that the Strategic Management has decided to subject to the anti-Covid vaccination with the last reserve of Pfizer-Biontech doses kept in their ultra-freezers.
As for the vaccination of dialysis patients, the location for the administrations has been identified in a protected environment, in the vaccination point of the Preventive Medicine Operations Unit of the Hospital City and the operations will end by next Tuesday. Of the 160 who have joined the initiative, 96 are from the Hematology Operations Unit with bone marrow transplant and 64 from the Nephrology and Dialysis Operations Unit. Not all transplant patients followed by the two departments will be vaccinated, but only those with certain clinical characteristics.
“Considering that subjects undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplants or on the waiting list for transplants are extremely vulnerable subjects, patients for whom vaccination was considered particularly urgent were selected for the Hematology Operating Unit,” explains Antonio Maria Risitano, who has been the director of the Hematology Operating Unit at Moscati for a few months. We therefore proceeded with a case-by-case evaluation of the approximately 200 transplanted patients in follow-up at the Moscati Hospital, of whom approximately 75% were transplanted on site, following the recommendations of national scientific societies, and in particular of the Italian Bone Marrow Transplant Group (Gitmo).
"In this way - continues Risitano - we have identified 96 patients to be vaccinated, responding to specific parameters. As recommended, people undergoing treatment with aggressive immuno-chemotherapies capable of compromising with a high probability the efficacy of the vaccination were excluded. We thank the strategic management of the Moscati Hospital - concludes the head physician - which has offered this possibility to our patients, implementing a care model in which vaccination completes the care of particularly fragile subjects, for whom the management of all treatments at our hospital undoubtedly represents an added value".
Article published on March 6, 2021 - 11pm
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