Thyroid Storm Provoked by Interleukin-2 Therapy for Metastatic Melanoma

With the growing use of immunotherapy in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune disease, severe autoimmune thyroid dysfunction may be provoked at an increasing rate. We herein report a 49-year-old male patient experiencing a life- threatening thyroid storm provoked by interleukin-2 (IL-2). This was...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Cancer Research and Practice 2014-06, Vol.1 (1), p.075-081
Hauptverfasser: 劉耀中(Liu, Yao-chung), 胡名宏(Hu, Ming-hung), 楊元豪(Yang, Yuan-hao), 高志平(Gau, Jyh-pyng), 劉俊煌(Liu, Jin-hwang)
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Zusammenfassung:With the growing use of immunotherapy in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune disease, severe autoimmune thyroid dysfunction may be provoked at an increasing rate. We herein report a 49-year-old male patient experiencing a life- threatening thyroid storm provoked by interleukin-2 (IL-2). This was a case of pulmonary metastasis of melanoma without a previous history of thyroid dysfunction. For the metastatic melanoma, he underwent combined immunochemotherapy including dacarbazine and IL-2. The 3rd course of immunochemotherapy was complicated with a thyroid storm manifested by high fever, tachycardia and even transient cardiac arrest. Fortunately, he recovered eventually from this crisis by immediate resuscitation followed by antithyroid dugs. Our case highlights the rare complication of a thyroid storm provoked by IL-2 treatment. Precaution against autoimmune thyroid dysfunction is required during treatment with IL-2 and probably also other kinds of newly-developed immunotherapy to avoid life-threatening complications.
ISSN:2311-3006
2311-3006