Chemotherapy-induced reversal of ciltacabtagene autoleucel-associated movement and neurocognitive toxicity.
ABSTRACT
In 2 complementary Letters to Blood, Karschnia et al and Graham et al provide new insights into the neurological toxicities that are observed with B-cell maturation antigen–directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cell treatment for multiple myeloma, identifying a frequency of immune effector cell–associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) that exceeds 40%. Severe ICANS is identified in 8% of patients in this real-world series. Outcomes were generally favorable, although the authors describe rare, late Parkinsonism-like hypokinetic movement disorders (also known as movement and neurocognitive toxicities) post-ICANS in 2 patients.
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I would consider prophylactic anti-IL1 blockade - like Ilaris, Acalyst, and anakinra. I think this could help a lot.
Park et al., Blood, 2023
Oliai et al., ASCO, 2021