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Vitiligo-like Depigmentation and Immune-Related Kidney Injury Following
PD-1 Antibody Treatment for Advanced Gastric Cancer: A Case Report
Abstract
While programmed death-1 (PD-1) antibodies play an important role in the
treatment of advanced gastric cancer, these treatments can cause
immune-related adverse events (irAEs). irAEs can affect multiple body
systems, vary in severity, and have diverse clinical manifestations.
Vitiligo-like depigmentation and acute kidney injury are relatively rare
irAEs observed in clinical practice. This report describes the case of a
patient with advanced gastric cancer who developed vitiligo-like
depigmentation and acute kidney injury eight weeks after treatment with
a PD-1 antibody combined with chemotherapy. The patient refused steroid
treatment, leading to a progressive increase in serum creatinine
concentration, recurrent proteinuria, sterile pyuria, and hematuria.
Depigmentation was notably evident in sun-exposed areas of the face and
both upper limbs. Eighteen weeks after discontinuing PD-1 treatment, the
patient’s serum creatinine level and glomerular filtration rate had
returned to normal levels, while the pyuria, hematuria, and proteinuria
normalized. However, the vitiligo-like depigmentation showed no
improvement. This case demonstrates that mild immunotherapy-induced
acute kidney injury can show partial or complete renal function recovery
without steroid treatment after cancer treatment discontinuation;
however, without intervention, vitiligo-like depigmentation is difficult
to improve.