Severe gastritis due to pembrolizumab treatment in a lung cancer patient. 2020

Noriko Hayama, and Hiroaki Ihara, and Yuichirou Honma, and Yukinari Itoigawa, and Kyoichi Kaira, and Mitsuhiro Fujii
Department of Respiratory Medicine Koto Hospital Tokyo Japan.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are known to induce gastrointestinal adverse events. Colitis occurs most frequently, and gastritis is less common. A few case reports of gastritis induced by ICIs have indicated that colitis induced by cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) resembles inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and that programmed death-1/programmed death ligand-1 (PD-1/PD-L1) inhibitor can also induce the same type of colitis. We herein encountered a case of gastritis arising after 25 cycles of pembrolizumab administration in which the pathological and endoscopic findings resembled those of IBD. ICIs may induce gastritis in a manner similar to the pathogenesis of IBD.

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