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作者: Raje, Noopur ; Johnson, Patrick C. ; Cook, Daniella ; Birocchi, Filippo ; Lindell, Kevin ; Newcomb, Richard ; Jeffrey, Richard ; Choi, Bryan D. ; Hammond, Sarah P. ; Mount, Christopher W. ; Maus, Marcela V. ; Gallagher, Kathleen M. E. ; Harris, Deshea L. ; Armstrong, Alexander ; Escobar, Giulia ; Li, Alex ; Leick, Mark B. ; El-Jawahri, Areej ; Mucci, Adele ; Dhawale, Tejaswini M. ; Reddy, Shantan ; Luk, Samantha O. ; Dougan, Michael ; Nardi, Valentina ; Yee, Andrew J. ; Chen, Yi-Bin ; Cirstea, Diana ; Chaffee, Ryan ; Blumenberg, Viktoria ; Barselau, Alexis L. ; Bozym, David J. ; Roche, Aoife M. ; McFarland, Alexander G. ; Sohani, Aliyah R. ; Frigault, Matthew J. ; Emmanuel-Alejandro, Estelle ; Branagan, Andrew ; Graham, Charlotte E. ; Shih, Angela ; Puliafito, Benjamin R. ; Bushman, Frederic D.
Abstract:Intractable diarrhea is a recently described complication following B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for multiple myeloma with reported mortality rates of 36% to 50%. The optimal clinical management is unknown. Here, we report a series of 5 patients who presented with severe diarrhea after BCMA CAR T-cell treatment. We hypothesized that the Janus kinase inhibitor, ruxolitinib, might be an effective therapy based on its success in graft-versus-host-disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplant and other immune-driven diarrhea syndromes. Three patients received ruxolitinib, all of whom experienced rapid clinical improvement. Among the 2 patients with matched pretreatment and posttreatment biopsies, both showed signs of histopathologic response, including 1 with CAR T-cell–associated indolent T-cell lymphoproliferative disease of the gastrointestinal tract.