Article
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis presumably unmasked by PD-1 inhibition.
BMJ Case Rep
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-13-2019
Disciplines
Abstract
Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) inhibitors stimulate immune recognition of tumour cells in cancer patients, but have significant autoimmune side effects including pneumonitis. We report the case of a patient with asthma and mild eosinophilia who developed unusual pulmonary side effect of bronchiectasis, severe eosinophilia (absolute eosinophil count: 3200 c/mm
Citation Information
Anthony A Donato and Ronald Krol. "Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis presumably unmasked by PD-1 inhibition." BMJ Case Rep Vol. 12 Iss. 2 (2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anthony-donato/1/