207.3 🩺 內科專科考前版

207.3.0.1 1⃣ Nirsevimab Implementation 2024-2025

  • 2024 ACIP universal recommendation for infants
  • Supply issues 2023-2024 (manufacturer scale-up)
  • Birth-dose for infants born during season; later dose for infants born outside
  • Insurance + cost considerations
  • Replacing palivizumab in most cases

207.3.0.2 2⃣ Maternal Abrysvo Considerations

  • Given 32-36 wk gestation
  • Alternative to nirsevimab in some scenarios
  • Insurance coverage varies
  • Don’t give both routinely (one or the other)
  • 2022 preterm signal in Abrysvo trial — investigated, no clear causation

207.3.0.3 3⃣ RSV Vaccine ≥ 60 yr Choice

  • Arexvy, Abrysvo, mRESVIA equally effective
  • Cost + availability + coadministration
  • mRESVIA is mRNA (newest)
  • Single dose initially; revaccination interval TBD (annual not currently recommended)

207.3.0.4 4⃣ Bronchiolitis Severity Scoring

  • Respiratory rate
  • Retractions
  • Wheezing
  • Air entry
  • Oxygen saturation
  • Multiple scoring systems (Wang, RDAI)
  • Used for triage + admission decision

207.3.0.5 5⃣ Why Bronchodilators Don’t Help RSV Bronchiolitis

  • Pathophysiology: airway epithelium destruction + mucus + inflammation, not bronchospasm
  • Trials show no benefit on outcomes
  • Possible mild symptomatic relief in some patients (trial + observation)
  • AAP 2014 + 2024: not routine

207.3.0.6 6⃣ Why Steroids Don’t Help

  • Similar reasoning
  • Trials negative
  • Asthma exacerbation in older children + RSV trigger: steroid per asthma algorithms (not bronchiolitis)

207.3.0.7 7⃣ Immunocompromise + RSV

  • HSCT, lung transplant — severe pneumonia
  • High mortality 20-40%
  • Ribavirin (aerosolized or oral) + IVIG combination — limited evidence
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans risk in lung transplant
  • Surveillance + early treatment

207.3.0.8 8⃣ COPD + RSV Exacerbation

  • ~ 5-10% COPD exacerbations are RSV
  • Treat as COPD exacerbation (steroid + bronchodilator + antibiotic if bacterial co-infection)
  • Vaccination prevention now possible

207.3.0.9 9⃣ 健保 / Taiwan

  • 健保 Hospitalization + supportive care
  • Palivizumab high-risk preterm 健保 limited indication
  • Nirsevimab 自費 (limited availability 2024)
  • Adult RSV vaccines 自費
  • 公費 program development ongoing
  • 盧醫垫 hint: 老人 + 肺/心慢病 — push RSV vaccine自費 if can afford; complement with flu + COVID + pneumococcal

207.3.0.10 10. Future + Pan-Pneumovirus Vaccines

  • Combination flu + RSV + COVID + HMPV vaccines in development
  • mRNA platform expansion
  • Universal pediatric immunization timing optimization
  • Reservoir-targeted (mouse vaccine for animal reservoir reduction — research)