Nina Wyss, Fiamma Berner, Vincent Walter, Ann-Kristin Jochum, Mette T Purde, Marie-Therese Abdou, Tobias Sinnberg, Kathrin Hofmeister, Oltin T Pop, Omar Hasan Ali, Jens Bauer, Hung-Wei Cheng, Mechthild Lütge, Niklas Klümper, Stefan Diem, Zeynep Kosaloglu-Yalcin, Yizheng Zhang, Laura Sellmer, Boris Macek, Julia Karbach, David König, Heinz Läubli, Lars Zender, Britta S Meyer, Christoph Driessen, Christian M Schürch, Wolfram Jochum, Teresa Amaral, Lucie Heinzerling, Antonio Cozzio, Ahmed N Hegazy, Tino Schneider, Martin H Brutsche, Alessandro Sette, Tobias L Lenz, Juliane Walz, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Martin Früh, Elke Jäger, Burkhard Becher, Amanda Tufman, Nicolas Nuñez, Markus Joerger, Lukas Flatz
RATIONALE: Immune checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis is a serious autoimmune event affecting up to 20% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, yet the factors underpinning its development in some patients and not others are poorly understood. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the role of autoantibodies and autoreactive T cells against surfactant-related proteins in the development of pneumonitis. METHODS: The study cohort consisted of non-small cell lung cancer patients who gave blood samples before and during immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment...
April 16, 2024: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine