Clinical features, diagnostic challenges, and management strategies in checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis

Cancer Management and Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2017, Pages 207-213

  Chuzi, Sarah ^a   Tavora, Fabio ^b   Cruz, Marcelo ^a   Costa, Ricardo ^a   Chae, Young Kwang ^a   Carneiro, Benedito A ^a   Giles, Francis J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Messejana Heart and Lung Hospital   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anti CTLA 4; Anti PD 1; Immune checkpoint inhibitors; Immune related adverse event; Pneumonitis

Indexed keywords

ATEZOLIZUMAB; CHECKPOINT KINASE INHIBITOR; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; IPILIMUMAB; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NIVOLUMAB; PEMBROLIZUMAB;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; APOPTOSIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSITIS; MORBIDITY; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; THYROIDITIS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85021387287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CMAR.S136818     Document Type: Review

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