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Case Report: Fatal myocarditis after combination of immune checkpoint inhibitor and platinum doublet chemotherapy
2021-01-18
Abstract excerpt
Myocarditis is a rare but feared adverse event of treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors. The incidence is about 1%, while the mortality rate is up to 50%. Many physicians treating lung cancer do not have experience with this serious adverse event, and few hospitals in Scandinavia have routines for baseline assessments that may help detect early signs of inflammation of the myocard. Early onset of anti-inflam...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 29d6d9a6-ca15-511b-9b82-b15eea9949f1
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.27967.1
