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ArticleEuropean thyroid journal2018

Sorafenib-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.

Laura Ximena Kattah Martinez, Lisseth Fernanda Marín Carrillo, Leonardo Rojas Melo

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Article in European thyroid journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura Ximena Kattah MartinezPontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Lisseth Fernanda Marín CarrilloPontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Leonardo Rojas MeloPontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana · CO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSorafenib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and recently for radioactive iodine (RAI)-refractory metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). Several side effects have been described including alterations in amylase and lipase levels. Nonetheless, only a few cases of pancreatitis during renal carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma treatment have been described.

objectiveTo describe the first case report of sorafenib-induced acute pancreatitis during the treatment of thyroid carcinoma. METHODS AND

resultsIn a 60-year-old Latin woman with RAI-refractory papillary thyroid carcinoma, T4bN1bM1, sorafenib was indicated due to locally recurrent, metastatic, and progressive lung involvement without iodine uptake. Therapy was initiated (200 mg) every 8 h. Three days after starting the medication, abdominal pain, nausea, and emesis appeared. A blood test revealed elevated amylase (343 U/L RV: 28-100) and lipase (1,969 U/L RV: 23-300) levels, but no other findings, confirming acute mild pancreatitis. Hypertriglyceridemia, hypercalcemia, and alcohol and biliary etiologies were ruled out and sorafenib-acute pancreatitis was concluded. Two weeks later, sorafenib was resumed without recurrence. To date, this is the tenth sorafenib-related pancreatitis report and the first in a patient with RAI-refractory metastatic DTC.

conclusionsSorafenib-acute pancreatitis may develop in patients with RAI-refractory thyroid cancer. This adverse event seems to be inde-pendent of the treatment duration and administered dose. Resuming the medication with an adjusted dose after pancreatitis resolution may be safe.

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Acute pancreatitisDifferentiated thyroid carcinomaIodine-refractory thyroid cancerSorafenibTyrosine kinase inhibitor

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PMCPMC6047494
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