Acute heart failure due to autoimmune myocarditis under pembrolizumab treatment for metastatic melanoma

Heinz Läubli; Cathrin Balmelli; Matthias Bossard; Otmar Pfister; Kathrin Glatz; Alfred Zippelius

doi:10.1186/s40425-015-0057-1

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Acute heart failure due to autoimmune myocarditis under pembrolizumab treatment for metastatic melanoma

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Heinz Läubli Division of Medical OncologyUniversity Hospital Basel Basel Switzerland Department of Biomedicine, Cancer Immunology LaboratoryUniversity of Basel Basel Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Cathrin Balmelli Division of Medical OncologyUniversity Hospital Basel Basel Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Matthias Bossard Division of CardiologyUniversity Hospital Basel Basel Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Otmar Pfister Division of CardiologyUniversity Hospital Basel Basel Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kathrin Glatz Institute of PathologyUniversity Hospital Basel Basel Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Alfred Zippelius Division of Medical OncologyUniversity Hospital Basel Basel Switzerland Department of Biomedicine, Cancer Immunology LaboratoryUniversity of Basel Basel Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles

↵a heinz.laeubli{at}unibas.ch
↵b catharina.balmellicattelan{at}usb.ch
↵c matthias.bossard{at}usb.ch
↵d otmar.pfister{at}usb.ch
↵e kathrin.glatz{at}usb.ch
↵f alfred.zippelius{at}usb.ch

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Läubli H, Balmelli C, Bossard M, et al

Acute heart failure due to autoimmune myocarditis under pembrolizumab treatment for metastatic melanoma

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2015;3:11. doi: 10.1186/s40425-015-0057-1

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Received February 11, 2015
Accepted March 11, 2015
First published April 21, 2015.

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April 21, 2015

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