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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2023 Jun 6;402(10402):641–654. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01052-8

Table 4:

Adverse events of special interest and management of cytokine release syndrome and neurological events (safety set)

Full population (n=117)

Patients with cytokine release syndrome
Any grade 99 (85%)
Grade 1 43 (37%)
Grade 2 46 (39%)
Grade 3 10 (9%)
Grade 4 0
Grade 5 0
Time to cytokine release syndrome onset, days* 4 (1–7)
Time to cytokine release syndrome resolution, days* 6 (4–11)
Patients with neurological events
Any grade 53 (45%)
Grade 1 13 (11%)
Grade 2 18 (15%)
Grade 3 21 (18%)
Grade 4 1 (1%)
Grade 5 0
Time to neurological event onset, days* 7 (4–11)
Time to neurological event resolution, days* 7 (4–16)
Tocilizumab and corticosteroid use for cytokine release syndrome
Doses of tocilizumab (n=76) 1 (1–2)
Tocilizumab only 41 (35%)
Corticosteroids only 2 (2%)
Both tocilizumab and corticosteroids 35 (30%)
Tocilizumab or corticosteroids or both 78 (67%)
Tocilizumab and corticosteroid use for neurological event
Doses of tocilizumab (n=8) 1 (1–1)
Tocilizumab only 0
Corticosteroids only 31 (26%)
Both tocilizumab and corticosteroids 8 (7%)
Tocilizumab or corticosteroids or both 39 (33%)
Other adverse events of special interest
Prolonged cytopenia 63 (54%)
Grade ≥3 infections§ 20 (17%)
Hypogammaglobulinaemia 18 (15%)
Tumour lysis syndrome 13 (11%)
Second primary malignancy|| 11 (9%)
Macrophage activation syndrome** 4 (3%)

Data are n (%) or median (IQR). Liso-cel=lisocabtagene maraleucel.

*

Any event that stopped and started again within 7 days was considered a single episode; time to resolution was defined as the number of days from onset of the first event to when the last event of the first episode ended; patients with an unresolved episode were excluded.

Neurological events were defined as investigator-identified neurological adverse events related to liso-cel.

Defined as grade ≥3 laboratory abnormalities of one or more of neutropenia, anaemia, or thrombocytopenia at day 30 after liso-cel infusion.

§

Infection includes grade ≥3 treatment-emergent adverse events from the infections and infestations system organ class by adverse event high-level group term.

Based on adverse events only; adverse events from the 90-day treatment-emergent period, post-treatment-emergent period, and long-term follow-up were included; grade 3 hypogammaglobulinaemia occurred in three patients, with no grade 4 or 5 events during the study.

||

Based on adverse events only; adverse events from the 90-day treatment-emergent period, post-treatment-emergent period, and long-term follow-up were included.

**

Grade ≥3 macrophage activation syndrome events occurred in three patients (grade 3, n=1; grade 4, n=1; grade 5, n=1).