Intravenous immunoglobulin is safe and effective in controlling pre-existing paraneoplastic neuromuscular diseases in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: two case reports and literature review

Immune checkpoint inhibitors cause rare but potentially fatal neuromuscular complications, leading to a concern to use these agents in cancer patients with pre-existing autoimmune or inflammatory neuromuscular diseases. We report two such patients with paraneoplastic dermatomyositis and “seronegativ...

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Main Authors: Ge Xiong, Richard Benjamin Young, Helen Chow, Emanual Maverakis, Ricardo A. Maselli, David Paul Richman, Tianhong Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1199195/full