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Herpes Encephalitis: A Mortal Complication in a Patient Treated with Immunosuppressive Drugs because of Immune-Related Adverse Events after Ipilimumab Treatment.

Lieke van Montfort, Caroline M Loos, Monique Anten, Rob L H Jansen

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Article in Case reports in oncology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lieke van MontfortDepartment of Medical Oncology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Caroline M LoosDepartment of Neurology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Monique AntenDepartment of Neurology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Rob L H JansenDepartment of Medical Oncology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Maastricht University · NLMaastricht University Medical Centre · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Until a few years ago, metastatic melanoma had a poor prognosis with limited treatment options. These therapeutics options and thereby median survival have increased obviously over 5 years with the arrival of immunotherapeutic drugs like ipilimumab, nivolumab, and pembrolizumab. Nowadays, ipilimumab is often used in patients with metastatic melanoma. In this paper, we report a case of a 68-year-old man who developed, and eventually died of, herpes encephalitis after introducing ipilimumab as treatment for metastatic melanoma. To our knowledge, this is the first report in which herpes encephalitis as a complication after ipilimumab and infliximab treatment is described and we would like to make physicians aware of this possible serious neurological complication, especially when a patient has a history of herpes simplex infection.

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CTLA-4 antigenHerpes simplex encephalitisImmunotherapyIpilimumabMelanomaNeuro-oncology tumor necrosis factorSide effects

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PMID29430235
PMCPMC5803703
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