Successful Treatment of Pembrolizumab-Induced Severe Capillary Leak Syndrome and Lymphatic Capillary Dysfunction

Although capillary leak syndrome has a high mortality rate, its trigger, diagnosis, and treatment remain a challenge to clinicians because of the poor understanding of its mechanism and lack of treatment guidelines. With the extended use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in modern oncology, immune che...

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Main Authors: Haixia Qin, MD, PhD, Brittany Vlaminck, CNP, Itunu Owoyemi, MBBS, Sandra M. Herrmann, MD, Nelson Leung, MD, Svetomir N. Markovic, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542454821000047