A rapidly progressive case of tuberculous pleurisy and pericarditis in a patient with non-small cell lung cancer that developed one month after receiving pembrolizumab monotherapy

We report a rapidly progressive case of tuberculous pleurisy and pericarditis. A 59-year-old, male patient with non-small-cell lung cancer commenced pembrolizumab monotherapy one month before but soon thereafter had fevers and dyspnea. Radiography revealed increased right pleural effusion, novel lef...

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Main Authors: Saori Ikeda, Kageaki Watanabe, Kazuhito Misawa, Noriyo Yanagawa, Yukio Hosomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-01-01
Series:IDCases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250925000897
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