Department of Oncology, Shanghai East Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Front Immunol. 2021 Jul 8;12:682262. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.682262. eCollection 2021.
Immunotherapy begins to be widely used due to the increasing exploration and gratifying effects in multiple cancers. Chordoma, as a rare bone malignant tumor, often recurs and metastasizes after undergoing surgery and radiotherapy. Therefore, immunotherapy can be explored as an emerging, potentially effective treatment to improve the survival rate and clinical benefit of patients. However, a variety of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) cannot be avoided completely. And the immunotherapy-induced myocarditis, as a rare but fatal irAE, has been increasingly reported. Understanding the mechanism involved in irAEs can inform best practices for side effects management. Here, we firstly reported a case of immune myocarditis and subsequent myasthenia gravis (MG) following anti-PD-1 treatment for chordoma.
免疫疗法由于在多种癌症中的不断探索和令人满意的效果而开始广泛应用。脊索瘤作为一种罕见的骨恶性肿瘤,在接受手术和放疗后常常复发和转移。因此,免疫疗法可以作为一种新兴的、潜在有效的治疗方法来提高患者的生存率和临床获益。然而,各种免疫相关不良反应(irAEs)是无法完全避免的。免疫疗法引起的心肌炎作为一种罕见但致命的 irAE,已被越来越多地报道。了解 irAEs 相关的机制可以为副作用管理提供最佳实践。在这里,我们首次报道了一例脊索瘤患者在接受抗 PD-1 治疗后发生免疫性心肌炎和随后的重症肌无力(MG)。