{"title":"COVID-19 vaccination in patients with classic and variant hairy cell leukemia","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.bneo.2024.100035","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Abstract</h3><div>Patients with the B-cell malignancy hairy cell leukemia (HCL) and the poorer-prognosis variant HCLv often receive anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), which kill normal B cells, impairing humoral immunity. We measured COVID-19 antibodies after doses of COVID-19 vaccine in patients with HCL (n = 415) and HCLv (n = 32). After the second COVID-19 vaccine dose, spike antibody level most strongly correlated with normal B-cell levels (r = 0.365, <em>P</em> < .0001), followed by CD4<sup>+</sup> T-cell count (r = 0.244, <em>P</em> = .0002), and was less related to immunoglobulin G level (r = 0.101, <em>P</em> = .14). Spike antibody also correlated with normal B cells after the third to fifth vaccine doses and with CD4<sup>+</sup> count after the third dose. Normal B-cells were undetectable in 87% of patients within 6 months after the last dose of anti-CD20 mAb and were lower than in patients at 6 to 12 months (<em>P</em> = .0003), which, in turn, were lower than at 12 to 18 months (<em>P</em> = .0002). Infection with COVID-19 became more common after use of the third vaccine dose; spike antibody levels were higher in patients with prior infection (positive vs negative nucleocapsid antibodies; <em>P</em> < .0001). Spike antibodies decreased faster after ibrutinib or anti-CD20 mAb. We conclude that decreased levels of normal B cells in patients with HCL/HCLv, due to disease and/or anti-CD20 therapy, are associated with lower COVID-19 vaccination efficiency and such patients may not respond well to vaccines. The associated studies were registered at <span><span>www.ClinicalTrials.gov</span><svg><path></path></svg></span> as #NCT01087333 (HCL/HCLv) and #NCT04362865 (COVID-19).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100189,"journal":{"name":"Blood Neoplasia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Blood Neoplasia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950328024000359","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Patients with the B-cell malignancy hairy cell leukemia (HCL) and the poorer-prognosis variant HCLv often receive anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), which kill normal B cells, impairing humoral immunity. We measured COVID-19 antibodies after doses of COVID-19 vaccine in patients with HCL (n = 415) and HCLv (n = 32). After the second COVID-19 vaccine dose, spike antibody level most strongly correlated with normal B-cell levels (r = 0.365, P < .0001), followed by CD4+ T-cell count (r = 0.244, P = .0002), and was less related to immunoglobulin G level (r = 0.101, P = .14). Spike antibody also correlated with normal B cells after the third to fifth vaccine doses and with CD4+ count after the third dose. Normal B-cells were undetectable in 87% of patients within 6 months after the last dose of anti-CD20 mAb and were lower than in patients at 6 to 12 months (P = .0003), which, in turn, were lower than at 12 to 18 months (P = .0002). Infection with COVID-19 became more common after use of the third vaccine dose; spike antibody levels were higher in patients with prior infection (positive vs negative nucleocapsid antibodies; P < .0001). Spike antibodies decreased faster after ibrutinib or anti-CD20 mAb. We conclude that decreased levels of normal B cells in patients with HCL/HCLv, due to disease and/or anti-CD20 therapy, are associated with lower COVID-19 vaccination efficiency and such patients may not respond well to vaccines. The associated studies were registered at www.ClinicalTrials.gov as #NCT01087333 (HCL/HCLv) and #NCT04362865 (COVID-19).