Sotrovimab therapy in solid organ transplant recipients with mild to moderate COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract

Purpose: Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) have a high risk for severe COVID-19 infection; hence it is necessary to find alternative treatment strategies to protect these patients from the complications caused by the severe progression of the disease. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of sotrovimab among SOTR with COVID-19.

Materials and methods: A systematic literature search was conducted with relevant keywords to find studies that reported clinical outcomes regarding sotrovimab administration in SOTR outpatients with confirmed COVID-19 infection, who had mild-to-moderate symptoms.

Results: Of 796 records found by a systematic search, only 14 met the inclusion criteria for reporting in a systematic review and only 6 enrolled in a meta-analysis. This meta-analysis indicated that SOTR outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19 who received sotrovimab had lower likelihood of all-cause hospitalization (OR: 0.29, CI: 0.16, 0.52, p < 0.001), ICU admission (OR: 0.17, CI: 0.05, 0.64, p = 0.009) and mortality (OR: 0.15, CI: 0.03, 0.64, p = 0.010) within 30 days of drug infusion compared to controls.

Conclusions: Our findings confirm that monoclonal antibody therapy with sotrovimab in SOTR is associated with better outcomes and consequently a reduced risk of disease progression in this high-risk population.

Keywords:

• COVID-19
• hospitalization
• ICU admission
• solid organ transplant recipients
• sotrovimab

Acknowledgements

The authors are acknowledged to the Kermanshah and Hamadan Universities of Medical Sciences for supporting the work.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).