Table 4.
Autoimmune syndromes
Patient No. |
Diagnosis | Autoimmune syndrome | Present diagnosis |
Response |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thymoma | Myasthenia | Yes* | Partial response |
PRCA | No | |||
Immune | No | |||
thrombocytopenia | No | |||
Myositis | No | |||
Myocarditis | ||||
2 | Thymoma | PRCA | No | Stable disease |
Food allergy (peanut) | No | |||
3 | Thymoma | PRCA | Yes | Stable disease |
4 | Thymoma | Cutaneous + GI Crohn’s | Yes* | Partial response |
5 | Thymoma | PRCA | Yes | Stable disease |
6 | Thymoma | Myasthenia | Yes* | Partial response |
AI colitis | No | |||
7 | Thymoma | Myasthenia | Yes* | Stable disease |
8 | Thymoma | Food allergy (olives) | No | Stable disease |
9 | Thymoma | PRCA | No | Stable disease |
PRCA: pure red cell aplasia;
These pre-existing AI syndromes worsened during treatment