Clinical practice alert on the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients latently infected with tuberculosis

Autor: Chirag Dhar
Rok vydání: 2019
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Popis: Multiple case reports have been published on the risk of tuberculosis activation in patients on immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICPIs). To this matter, I caution clinicians to test for latent tuberculosis before starting their patients on ICPIs.
Databáze: OpenAIRE