Cytokine release syndrome in a patient with colorectal cancer after vaccination with BNT162b2
Autor: | Au, Lewis, Fendler, Annika, Shepherd, Scott TC, Rzeniewicz, Karolina, Cerrone, Maddalena, Byrne, Fiona, Carlyle, Eleanor, Edmonds, Kim, Del Rosario, Lyra, Shon, John, Haynes, Winston A, Ward, Barry, Shum, Ben, Gordon, William, Gerard, Camille L, Xie, Wenyi, Joharatnam-Hogan, Nalinie, Young, Kate, Pickering, Lisa, Furness, Andrew JS, Larkin, James, Harvey, Ruth, Kassiotis, George, Gandhi, Sonia, Consortium, Crick COVID-19, Swanton, Charles, Fribbens, Charlotte, Wilkinson, Katalin A, Wilkinson, Robert J, Lau, David K, Banerjee, Susana, Starling, Naureen, Chau, Ian, Consortium, CAPTURE, Turajlic, Samra |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Chemical Biology & High Throughput Human Biology & Physiology FOS: Clinical medicine Stem Cells Genome Integrity & Repair Immunology Neurosciences Infectious Disease Cell Biology Tumour Biology Signalling & Oncogenes Ecology Evolution & Ethology Genetics & Genomics Computational & Systems Biology |
DOI: | 10.25418/crick.15692316.v1 |
Popis: | Patients with cancer are currently prioritized in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination programs globally, which includes administration of mRNA vaccines. Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) has not been reported with mRNA vaccines and is an extremely rare immune-related adverse event of immune checkpoint inhibitors. We present a case of CRS that occurred 5 d after vaccination with BTN162b2 (tozinameran)-the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-in a patient with colorectal cancer on long-standing anti-PD-1 monotherapy. The CRS was evidenced by raised inflammatory markers, thrombocytopenia, elevated cytokine levels (IFN-γ/IL-2R/IL-18/IL-16/IL-10) and steroid responsiveness. The close temporal association of vaccination and diagnosis of CRS in this case suggests that CRS was a vaccine-related adverse event; with anti-PD1 blockade as a potential contributor. Overall, further prospective pharmacovigillence data are needed in patients with cancer, but the benefit-risk profile remains strongly in favor of COVID-19 vaccination in this population. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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