Table I.
Other cases of immunotherapy-induced sclerotic skin disease
Drug(s) | Target | Patient sex, age, and indication | irAE | Time from drug onset to iRAE | Treatment of SLS and result | SLS treatment response outcome |
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Pembrolizumab Ipilimumab Nivolumab |
PD-1, CTLA-4 | 61 M, Melanoma | Generalized morphea associated with eosinophilia4 | 10 mos (from combined immunotherapy onset) | Dexamethasone pulse dosing and clobetasone propionate | Improvement but not resolution |
Nivolumab | PD-1 | 70 (s) M, Melanoma | SLS with no system symptoms5 | 54 wks | Prednisolone, 20 mg/d (0.3 mg/kg) | Resolution after 9-mo prednisone taper |
Nivolumab | PD-1 | 61 M, Oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma | Scleroderma-like skin changes6 | 32 wks | Prednisone, mycophenolate mofetil | Improved; flared after prednisone taper requiring mycophenolate mofetil |
irAE, Immune-related adverse event; SLS, scleroderma-like syndrome.