Amer Bushra, Hawshab Fatima D, Hawshab Lateefah D, Darwesh Khaled M
Internal Medicine, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA, USA.
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sixth of October Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect. 2025 May 5;15(3):59-62. doi: 10.55729/2000-9666.1486. eCollection 2025.
Nowadays, checkpoint inhibitors play a major role in the management of different types of cancers. However, we have seen variants of immune therapy-related adverse events, which usually are variables from fatigue, to neuropathy to severe devastating complications such as respiratory failure due to myasthenia gravis (MG), as we saw in our case. Our patient was started on pembrolizumab, and they developed severe respiratory failure attributed to MG after three weeks from treatment initiation. Also, the patient presented with myositis, mild myocarditis and hepatitis, which were all related to pembrolizumab.
如今,检查点抑制剂在不同类型癌症的治疗中发挥着重要作用。然而,我们已经看到了免疫治疗相关不良事件的变体,这些事件通常从疲劳到神经病变不等,甚至会出现严重的毁灭性并发症,如我们病例中所见的因重症肌无力(MG)导致的呼吸衰竭。我们的患者开始使用派姆单抗治疗,在治疗开始三周后出现了归因于MG的严重呼吸衰竭。此外,该患者还出现了肌炎、轻度心肌炎和肝炎,这些都与派姆单抗有关。