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CASE REPORT article

Front. Immunol.
Sec. Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1508293
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancements in Immune Heterogeneity in Inflammatory Diseases and Cancer: New Targets, Mechanisms, and Strategies View all 7 articles

Case Report: Multi-organ injuries induced by tislelizumab

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
  • 2 Suining Central Hospital, Suining, China

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    The use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) often develops immune-related adverse events (irAEs). However, irAEs-induced multi-organ injuries remain a rare event. We herein report a case of multi-organ injuries induced by tislelizumab in a lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) patient. A 68-year-old man had undergone neoadjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and tislelizumab. He presented with a 1-month history of nausea and poor appetite after the second dose of therapy. During investigations, rhabdomyolysis, liver, kidney, and thyroid damage were detected. After multi-disciplinary consultation, multi-organ injuries related to ICIs (striated muscle, liver, kidney, and thyroid) were considered to result from cumulated irAEs induced by tislelizumab. The patient was treated with levothyroxine, methylprednisolone, intravenous immunoglobulins, and continuous renal replacement therapy. After treatment, the patient recovered and was discharged from the hospital. The patient presented with multiple organ damage, not single immunity treatment adverse reactions, relatively rare. In clinical work, irAEs are likely not a single-system organ disorder and many kinds of attention need to be combined with the risk of multi-system damage.

    Keywords: Lung squamous cell carcinoma, Immune-related adverse events, immune checkpoint inhibitors, tislelizumab, multi-organ injuries, case report

    Received: 09 Oct 2024; Accepted: 13 Jan 2025.

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    * Correspondence: Libo Yan, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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