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TNF-alpha inhibitors in organ transplant recipients: a retrospective cohort study

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Abbreviations

TNFi:

TNF-alpha inhibitors

OTR:

Organ transplant recipients

VUMC:

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

JHM:

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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Funding

Dr. Wheless is supported by a grant from the Skin Cancer Foundation, a Physician Scientist Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation and VA CSR&D grant CX-002452. The project described was supported by CTSA award No. UL1TR000445 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent official views of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences or the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bibee is supported by a Dermatologic Surgery Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Nashville, TN, USA

    Christopher Madden, Isabelle T. Smith, Jacqueline Ike, Briana R. Halle, Dominique Mosley & Lee Wheless

  2. State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Christopher Madden

  3. Johns Hopkins Department of Dermatology, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Katherine G. Thompson & Kristin Bibee

  4. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Isabelle T. Smith

  5. Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, USA

    Jacqueline Ike

  6. Department of Dermatology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Briana R. Halle

  7. Department of Dermatology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Carolyn Ahlers

  8. Quillen College of Medicine, Johnson City, TN, USA

    Sarah Grossarth

  9. Tennessee Valley VA Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

    Lee Wheless

  10. VUMC Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Nashville, TN, USA

    Lee Wheless

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All authors contributed to data collection, interpretation, and editing of the final draft. CM wrote the initial draft. CM, IS, KT, and LW conducted the analyses. LW and KB provided oversight.

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Correspondence to Lee Wheless.

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The authors have no conflicts to declare.Study approved as exempt non-human subjects research, VUMC IRB #200335, JHM IRB #IRB00398143)

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Madden, C., Thompson, K.G., Smith, I.T. et al. TNF-alpha inhibitors in organ transplant recipients: a retrospective cohort study. Arch Dermatol Res 316, 179 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00403-024-02944-y

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