Figueroa-Perez Nikole, Kashyap Rahul, Bal Deepinder, Anjum Khan Syed, Pattan Vishwanath
Medicine, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, New York City, USA.
Internal Medicine/Critical Care, Centennial Medical Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Healthcare, Nashville, USA.
Cureus. 2021 Aug 6;13(8):e16933. doi: 10.7759/cureus.16933. eCollection 2021 Aug.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) have been among the increasingly used antineoplastic agents for advanced cancers including renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Although these antineoplastic agents have broad range of efficacy, rare adverse events - mild and fatal, acute and chronic, immune and non-immune mediated - have been reported. We report a case of a 73-year-old Caucasian male patient with stage IV right-sided clear cell RCC who was treated with a pembrolizumab-axitinib combination regimen and suffered life-threatening, acute onset immune-related myasthenia gravis (MG), subsequently progressive hypothyroidism, and primary adrenal insufficiency.
免疫检查点抑制剂(ICI)和酪氨酸激酶抑制剂(TKI)已成为包括肾细胞癌(RCC)在内的晚期癌症中越来越常用的抗肿瘤药物。尽管这些抗肿瘤药物具有广泛的疗效,但仍有罕见的不良事件被报道,包括轻度和致命的、急性和慢性的、免疫和非免疫介导的。我们报告了一例73岁的白种男性患者,患有IV期右侧透明细胞肾细胞癌,接受了帕博利珠单抗-阿昔替尼联合治疗方案,出现了危及生命的急性免疫相关性重症肌无力(MG),随后出现进行性甲状腺功能减退和原发性肾上腺功能不全。