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Available online 22 January 2025
What should intensivists know about immune checkpoint inhibitors and their side effects?
¿Qué deben saber los intensivistas sobre los checkpoint inhibitors y sus efectos secundarios?
Viktor Yordanov Zlatkov Aleksandrov&#¿;
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, Fernando Martínez Sagasti, Juncal Pérez-Somarriba Moreno, Helena Huertas Mondéjar
Hospital Clínico San Carlos, C. Profesor Martín Lagos SN, Madrid, 28040, Spain
Received 04 August 2024. Accepted 22 October 2024
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Table 1. Grading system of the severity of immune related adverse events. Based on the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE).
Table 2. Criteria that define the most severe forms of irAE and their management. Based on the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) guidelines.
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Abstract

The pharmacological group of immune checkpoint-inhibitors (ICI) has revolutionized the field of oncology in the last ten years. The improvements in the survival of certain cancers thanks to these treatments comes at the cost of an increased morbidity and mortality due to certain immune related adverse events (irAE). This review will concentrate on the irAE that more frequently require intensive care unit (ICU) admission. The infectious burden of patients treated with ICI is also explored, shining light not only on the infections caused by the immunosuppression needed to manage the different irAE, but also on the specific infections arising from a unique immune dysregulation only seen in ICI treated patients.

Keywords:
Immune checkpoint inhibitors
Immune related adverse events
Immunotherapy infections due to dysregulated immunity
Abbreviations:
APC
BAL
CDI
CIDP
cMRI
CMV
CNS
CS
CSF
CT
CTX-ICI
CTLA-4
COP
DI
DIRE
ECOG
GBS
HBV
IBD
ICI-SLG
ICU
IPA
irAE
irH
ITI-DI
IVIG
MRI
NSAID
NSCLC
PCP
PD
PD-L
PNS
PPI
RCC
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El grupo farmacológico de los checkpoint-inhibitors (ICI) ha revolucionado la oncología en los últimos diez años. Las mejorías en el pronóstico oncológico se han acompañado de una serie de eventos adversos inmunomediados (irAE) que otorgan importante morbi-mortalidad. Esta revisión está centrada en los irAE que con mayor frecuencia pueden requerir un ingreso en una unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI). Además, aporta un énfasis en la importancia de la patología infecciosa que pueden sufrir estos enfermos, ya sea por la inmunosupresión requerida para tratar los irAE, como por la disregulación inmune propia de los ICI.

Palabras clave:
Immune checkpoint inhibitors
Eventos adversos inmunomediados
Infecciones asociadas a disregulación inmune por inmunoterapia

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