Management of anaphylaxis due to COVID-19 vaccines in the elderly
Jean Bousquet 1 2 3, Ioana Agache 4, Hubert Blain 5, Marek Jutel 6 7, Maria Teresa Ventura 8, Margitta Worm 1, Stefano Del Giacco 9, Athanasios Benetos 10, Beatrice Maria Bilo 11 12, Wienczyslawa Czarlewski 13, Amir Hamzah Abdul Latiff 14, Mona Al-Ahmad 15 16, Elizabeth Angier 17, Isabella Annesi-Maesano 18, Marina Atanaskovic-Markovic 19, Claus Bachert 20 21 22 23, Annick Barbaud 24 25, Anna Bedbrook 14, Kazi S Bennoor 26, Elena Camelia Berghea 27 28, Carsten Bindslev-Jensen 29, Sergio Bonini 30, Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich 31 32, Knut Brockow 33, Luisa Brussino 34, Paulo Camargos 35, G Walter Canonica 36 37, Victoria Cardona 38 39, Pedro Carreiro-Martins 40 41, Ana Carriazo 42, Thomas Casale 43, Jean-Christoph Caubet 44, Lorenzo Cecchi 45, Antonio Cherubini 46, George Christoff 47, Derek K Chu 48, Alvaro A Cruz 49, Dejan Dokic 50, Yehia El-Gamal 51, Motohiro Ebisawa 52, Bernadette Eberlein 33, John Farrell 53, Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas 54, Wytske J Fokkens 55 56, Joao A Fonseca 57 58, Yadong Gao 59, Gaëtan Gavazzi 60, Radoslaw Gawlik 61, Asli Gelincik 62, Bilun Gemicioğlu 63, Maia Gotua 64, Olivier Guérin 65, Tari Haahtela 66, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber 67, Hans Jürgen Hoffmann 68 69, Maja Hofmann 1, Martin Hrubisko 70, Maddalena Illario 71, Carla Irani 72, Zhanat Ispayeva 73, Juan Carlos Ivancevich 74, Kaja Julge 75, Igor Kaidashev 76, Musa Khaitov 77, Edward Knol 78, Helga Kraxner 79, Piotr Kuna 80, Violeta Kvedariene 81 82, Antti Lauerma 83, Lan T T Le 84, Vincent Le Moing 85, Michael Levin 86, Renaud Louis 87, Olga Lourenco 88, Vera Mahler 89, Finbarr C Martin 90, Andrea Matucci 91, Branislava Milenkovic 92, Stéphanie Miot 5, Emma Montella 71, Mario Morais-Almeida 93, Charlotte G Mortz 29, Joaquim Mullol 94 95, Leyla Namazova-Baranova 96, Hugo Neffen 97, Kristof Nekam 98, Marek Niedoszytko 99, Mikaëla Odemyr 100, Robyn E O'Hehir 101, Yoshitaka Okamoto 102, Markus Ollert 103 104, Oscar Palomares 105, Nikolaos G Papadopoulos 106, Petr Panzner 107, Giovanni Passalacqua 108, Vincenzo Patella 109, Mirko Petrovic 110, Oliver Pfaar 111, Nhân Pham-Thi 112, Davor Plavec 113 114, Todor A Popov 115, Marysia T Recto 116, Frederico S Regateiro 117 118 119, Jacques Reynes 85, Regina E Roller-Winsberger 120, Yves Rolland 121, Antonino Romano 122 123, Carmen Rondon 124 125, Menachem Rottem 126 127, Philip W Rouadi 128, Nathalie Salles 129, Boleslaw Samolinski 130, Alexandra F Santos 131 132 133 134, Faradiba S Sarquis 135, Joaquin Sastre 136, Jos M G A Schols 137, Nicola Scichilone 138, Anna Sediva 139, Mohamed H Shamji 140 141, Aziz Sheikh 142, Isabel Skypala 143, Sylwia Smolinska 144 145, Milena Sokolowska 146, Bernardo Sousa-Pinto 57 58 147, Milan Sova 148, Rafael Stelmach 149, Gunter Sturm 150 151, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik 152, Ana Maria Todo-Bom 153, Sanna Toppila-Salmi 66, Ioanna Tsiligianni 154 155, Maria Torres 156, Eva Untersmayr 67, Marilyn Urrutia Pereira 157, Arunas Valiulis 158 159, Joana Vitte 160 161, Alessandra Vultaggio 91, Dana Wallace 162, Jolanta Walusiak-Skorupa 163, De-Yun Wang 164, Susan Waserman 48, Arzu Yorgancioglu 165, Osman M Yusuf 166, Mario Zernotti 167, Mihaela Zidarn 168, Tomas Chivato 169, Cezmi A Akdis 170, Torsten Zuberbier 1, Ludger Klimek 171 172
Affiliations
Affiliations
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Comprehensive Allergy Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
- University Hospital Montpellier, France.
- MACVIA-France, Montpellier, France.
- Faculty of Medicine, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania.
- Department of Geriatrics, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France.
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Wrocław Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
- ALL-MED Medical Research Institute, Wrocław, Poland.
- University of Bari Medical School, Unit of Geriatric Immunoallergology, Bari, Italy.
- Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, Unit of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital "Duilio Casula", University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
- Department of Geriatrics, CHRU de Nancy and Inserm DCAC, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
- Allergy Unit, Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona, Italy.
- Medical Consulting Czarlewski, Levallois, France.
- Department of Pediatrics, Allergy & Immunology Centre, Pantai Hospital, Universiti Putra Malaysia Teaching Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
- Department of Allergy, Al-Rashed Allergy Center, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
- Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
- Institut Desbrest d'Epidémiologie et Santé Publique (IDESP), INSERM et Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
- Faculty of Medicine, University Children's Hospital, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
- Upper Airways Research Laboratory, ENT Department, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
- International Airway Research Center, Sun Yat-sen University, First Affiliated Hospital Guangzou, China.
- Division of ENT Diseases, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Department of ENT Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Division of Service de Dermatologie et Allergologie, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France.
- Division of Equipe PEPITES, Sorbonne Université, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Paris, France.
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
- Clinical Emergency Hospital for Children MS Curie, Bucharest, Romania.
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy Centre, Odense University Hospital, Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis (ORCA), Odense, Denmark.
- Institute of Translational Pharmacology, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
- Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Glebe, NSW, Australia.
- Woolcock Emphysema Centre, Sydney Local Health District, Glebe, NSW, Australia.
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
- Department of Medical Sciences, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, University of Torino & Mauriziano Hospital, Torino, Italy.
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
- IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Personalized Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Milan, Italy.
- Allergy Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
- ARADyAL Research Network, Barcelona, Spain.
- Serviço de Imunoalergologia, Hospital de Dona Estefânia, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM), CEDOC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Regional Ministry of Health of Andalusia, Seville, Spain.
- Division of Allergy/Immunology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
- Pediatric Allergy Unit, Department of Child and Adolescent, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
- SOS Allergology and Clinical Immunology, USL Toscana Centro, Prato, Italy.
- Geriatria, Accettazione Geriatrica e Centro di Ricerca per l'invecchiamento, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy.
- Faculty of Public Health, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Department of Medicine and Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
- Fundação ProAR, Federal University of Bahia and GARD/WHO Planning Group, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
- Medical Faculty, University Clinic of Pulmology and Allergy, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
- Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
- Clinical Research Center for Allergy and Rheumatology, NHO Sagamihara National Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan.
- LANUA International Healthcare Consultancy, Down, UK.
- Allergy Department Hospital Clínico San Carlos, UCM, IdISSC, Madrid, Spain.
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Centers, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherland.
- EUFOREA, Brussels, Belgium.
- Faculdade de Medicina, CINTESIS, Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
- Allergy Unit, CUF Porto, Porto, Portugal.
- Department of Allergology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
- Service Gériatrie Clinique, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Grenoble-Alpes, GREPI (TIMC-IMAG, CNRS 5525, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France.
- Department of Internal Medicine, Allergy and Clin Immunology, Silesian University of Medicine, Katowice, Poland.
- Division of Immunology and Allergic Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Center of Allergy and Immunology, Georgian Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Service de Gériatrie, CHRU, Nice, France.
- Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
- Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
- Department of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
- Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Oncology Institute of St Elisabeth, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Department of Public Health and Research and Development Unit, Federico II University & Hospital, Naples, Italy.
- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St Joseph University, Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon.
- President of Kazakhstan Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- Servicio de Alergia e Immunologia, Clinica Santa Isabel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Tartu University Institute of Clinical Medicine, Children's Clinic, Tartu, Estonia.
- Ukrainina Medical Stomatological Academy, Poltava, Ukraine.
- National Research Center, Institute of Immunology, Federal Medicobiological Agency, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Moscow, Russia.
- Departments of Immunology and Dermatology/Allergology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
- Division of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Barlicki University Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Chest Diseases and Allergology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Department of Dermatology and Allergology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
- University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
- Department of Infectiology, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France.
- Division Paediatric Allergology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, CHU Sart-Tilman, GIGA I3 Research Group, Liege, Belgium.
- Faculty of Health Sciences, CICS - UBI, Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.
- Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany.
- Emeritus Geriatrician and Professor of Medical Gerontology Population Health Sciences I, King's College London, London, UK.
- Immunoallergology Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
- Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbian Association for Asthma and COPD, Belgrade, Serbia.
- Allergy Center, CUF Descobertas Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Rhinology Unit & Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.
- Clinical & Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, IDIBAPS, CIBERES, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
- Pediatrics and Child Health Research Institute, Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
- Director of Center of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Diseases, Santa Fe, Argentina.
- Hospital of the Hospitaller Brothers in Buda, Budapest, Hungary.
- Department of Allergology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
- EFA European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations, Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract
Older adults, especially men and/or those with diabetes, hypertension, and/or obesity, are prone to severe COVID-19. In some countries, older adults, particularly those residing in nursing homes, have been prioritized to receive COVID-19 vaccines due to high risk of death. In very rare instances, the COVID-19 vaccines can induce anaphylaxis, and the management of anaphylaxis in older people should be considered carefully. An ARIA-EAACI-EuGMS (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and European Geriatric Medicine Society) Working Group has proposed some recommendations for older adults receiving the COVID-19 vaccines. Anaphylaxis to COVID-19 vaccines is extremely rare (from 1 per 100,000 to 5 per million injections). Symptoms are similar in younger and older adults but they tend to be more severe in the older patients. Adrenaline is the mainstay treatment and should be readily available. A flowchart is proposed to manage anaphylaxis in the older patients.
Keywords: COVID-19 vaccines; adrenaline; anaphylaxis; older (adults/people).
© 2021 EAACI and John Wiley and Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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