diff --git a/src/features/network-modification-table/network-modifications-table.tsx b/src/features/network-modification-table/network-modifications-table.tsx
index 593285e2f..53617c222 100644
--- a/src/features/network-modification-table/network-modifications-table.tsx
+++ b/src/features/network-modification-table/network-modifications-table.tsx
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import { useModificationsSelection } from './use-modifications-selection';
 import {
     fetchSubModificationsForExpandedRows,
     findAllLoadedCompositeModifications,
+    findAllLoadedReferenceModifications,
     findDepth,
     formatToComposedModification,
     isCompositeModification,
@@ -155,19 +156,19 @@ export function NetworkModificationsTable({
         );
         setComposedModifications(nextMods);
 
-        // Re-fetch authoritative children for every composite that already had loaded children,
-        // correcting anything stale that was temporarily preserved above.
+        // Re-fetch authoritative children for every composite AND reference that already had
+        // loaded children, correcting anything stale that was temporarily preserved above.
+        // References matter here because a shared-element update changes the referenced
+        // composite's content while the reference row stays expanded.
         // Source of truth: prevMods — nextMods children may have been filtered just above.
         // The rowKeys collected here are still valid in nextMods since the merge above preserved them.
         const loadedComposites: ComposedModificationMetadata[] = [];
         findAllLoadedCompositeModifications(prevMods, loadedComposites);
-        if (loadedComposites.length > 0) {
-            fetchSubModificationsForExpandedRows(
-                loadedComposites.map((m) => m.rowKey),
-                nextMods,
-                setComposedModifications,
-                true
-            );
+        const loadedReferences: ComposedModificationMetadata[] = [];
+        findAllLoadedReferenceModifications(prevMods, loadedReferences);
+        const expandedRowKeysToRefresh = [...loadedComposites, ...loadedReferences].map((m) => m.rowKey);
+        if (expandedRowKeysToRefresh.length > 0) {
+            fetchSubModificationsForExpandedRows(expandedRowKeysToRefresh, nextMods, setComposedModifications, true);
         }
     }, [modifications]);
 
diff --git a/src/features/network-modification-table/utils.ts b/src/features/network-modification-table/utils.ts
index dce402bf6..2aa2751a6 100644
--- a/src/features/network-modification-table/utils.ts
+++ b/src/features/network-modification-table/utils.ts
@@ -116,6 +116,28 @@ export function findAllLoadedCompositeModifications(
     });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Collects every reference modification whose children are already loaded, at any depth
+ * (a reference can be nested inside an expanded composite). Unlike
+ * {@link findAllLoadedCompositeModifications}, recursion does not stop on non-matching
+ * nodes since a reference's ancestors are usually composites.
+ * @param modifications source where the reference modifications are looked for
+ * @param references result : all the loaded reference modifications found
+ */
+export function findAllLoadedReferenceModifications(
+    modifications: ComposedModificationMetadata[],
+    references: ComposedModificationMetadata[]
+) {
+    modifications.forEach((modification) => {
+        if (modification.subModifications.length > 0) {
+            if (isReferenceModification(modification)) {
+                references.push(modification);
+            }
+            findAllLoadedReferenceModifications(modification.subModifications, references);
+        }
+    });
+}
+
 export function findModificationInTree(
     rowKey: UUID,
     mods: ComposedModificationMetadata[]