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Steroid-dependent pericarditis following anti-PD1 immunotherapy in a metastatic melanoma patient: a case report.

Marthe VerhaertJeroen MebisSandrine AspeslaghBerlinde A von Kemp
Published in: European heart journal. Case reports (2023)
Because of the chronicity of the pericarditis, it was hypothesized that an underlying auto-immune pericarditis was triggered by the checkpoint inhibitor and the general guidelines for recurrent idiopathic pericarditis were followed, successfully adding azathioprine to taper steroids to stop.
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