Varicella infections in patients with end stage renal disease: a systematic review

Ong, Chong Yau; Low, Sher Guan; Vasanwala, Farhad Fakhrudin; Baikunje, Shashidhar; Low, Lian Leng

doi:10.1186/s12882-018-0976-4

BMC Nephrology

Table 1 Characteristics of selected studies

From: Varicella infections in patients with end stage renal disease: a systematic review

Study	Region	Design	Study population	Outcomes measured
Study	Region	Design	Study population	Prevalence of disease/immunity	Morbidity/ Mortality	Efficacy	Safety
Crespo JF, et al. (2002) [16]	Spain	Prospective cohort	Single centre. 336 candidates for renal transplant. Follow-up 4 years.	+		+	+
Geel AL, et al. (2006) [17]	Netherlands	Prospective cohort	Single centre. 854 transplants patients. 286 waitlist patients. Follow-up 13 weeks.	+		+	+
Rodríguez-Moreno A, et al. (2006) [13]	Spain	Retrospective data collection	Single centre. 812 adult renal transplant patients. (From 1995 to 2004).	+	+
Kaul A, et al. (2012) [9]	India	Retrospective data collection	Single centre. 1546 adult renal transplants patients. (From June2000-June 2010)	+	+
Talebi-Taher M, et al. (2013) [18]	Iran	Cross sectional	Single centre. VZV IgG acquisition from 187 haemodialysis patients (aged 18 to 88). (March–July 2010).	+
Abad CL, et al. (2016) [14]	USA	Retrospective data collection	Not available. Review of all cases with disseminated VZV among renal transplant recipients 56 cases in adults.(From 1985 to 2011).	+
Ong CY, et al. (2018) [15]	Singapore	Retrospective data collection	Single centre. Review of all cases with varicella among ESRD patients. 66 cases in adults. (From 2005 to 2016).	+	+
Errasti P, et al. (1999) [19]	USA	Case reports from retrospective data collection	Single centre. Review of 476 renal transplant recipients revealed 4 cases of chickenpox. (Renal transplant done from 1969 to 1998).		+
Ishikawa N, et al. (2000) [20]	Japan	Case reports	2 patients described.		+
Fehr T, et al. (2002) [5]	i)not mentioned ii) Switzerland	i) Review of literature. ii)Case reports	i) Not available. Review of literature 1981–2000. 34 cases disseminated varicella identified. ii) 4 cases reported.		+
Lauzurica R, et al. (2003) [21]	USA	Retrospective data collection	Single centre. Review of kidney transplant recipients.1 patient described. (Oct 1985 to Aug 2002).		+
Sinha S, et al. (2003) [46]	India	Case reports	2 patients described.		+
Robertson S, et al. (2006) [22]	Scotland, UK	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Shahabazian H, et al. (2007) [47]	Iran	Case report	Report of chickenpox outbreak in renal transplant recipients. 3 patients described.		+
Crowther N, et al. (2009) [31]	Australia	i) Retrospective data collection. ii) Case report	Single centre. Review of renal allograft recipients revealed 1 patient developed varicella. (From Dec 1972 to July 2010)		+
Kandasamy R, et al. (2009) [48]	USA	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Sato A, et al. (2009) [27]	Japan	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Assi M, et al. (2011) [29]	USA	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Mustapic Z, et al. (2011) [49]	Croatia	Case report	2 patients described.		+
Chiang E, et al. (2012) [50]	USA	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Inokuchi R, et al. (2013) [23]	Japan	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Low LL, et al. (2014) [30]	Singapore	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Nabi S, et al. (2014) [26]	USA	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Sampathkumar K, et al. (2015) [24]	India	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Depledge DP, et al. (2016) [25]	UK	Case report	1 patient described.		+
Chhabra P, et al. (2017) [51]	India	Case report	1 patient described		+
Momani H, et al. (2017) [52]	Jordan	Retrospective data collection.	Single centre. 20 renal transplants patients revealed 1 patient developed varicella. (From April 2015–June 2016)		+
Kho MML, et al. (2017) [32]	Netherlands	Prospective cohort	Not available. 52 kidney transplants patients. Follow-up two years.			+	+
Scanlon-Kohlroser CA, et al. (2002) [28]	USA	Case report	1 patient described.				+

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