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Tuberculosis Peritonitis During Treatment of Polycythemia Vera with Ruxolitinib.


ABSTRACT: Ruxolitinib is a selective JAK1/2 inhibitor that is widely used for the treatment of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), including myelofibrosis and polycythemia vera (PV). Despite its clinical efficacy for MPNs, ruxolitinib possesses immunosuppressive properties that potentially increase the risks for opportunistic infection, such as mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection, and reactivation of occult viral infection. Herein, we report the case of a 76-year-old male with PV who developed tuberculosis peritonitis under ruxolitinib therapy for 28 weeks. While previous studies and case reports have suggested an increased risk of MTB infection of various organs during ruxolitinib treatment of MPNs, this case is apparently the first of tuberculosis peritonitis in a patient with MPN treated with ruxolitinib. A review of previous case reports suggests the need for careful observation for MTB from the relatively early phase of ruxolitinib treatment, given that the median duration from the start of ruxolitinib treatment to the emergence of MTB was 20 weeks (range: 3-88 weeks). Clinicians should consider tuberculosis peritonitis as a differential diagnosis when patients with MPN treated with ruxolitinib develop infectious abdominal symptoms.

SUBMITTER: Sakiyama E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7152536 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Tuberculosis Peritonitis During Treatment of Polycythemia Vera with Ruxolitinib.

Sakiyama Emiko E   Chinen Yoshiaki Y   Tsukamoto Taku T   Takimoto-Shimomura Tomoko T   Kuwahara-Ota Saeko S   Matsumura-Kimoto Yayoi Y   Shimura Yuji Y   Kobayashi Tsutomu T   Horiike Shigeo S   Kuroda Junya J  

Infection and drug resistance 20200408


Ruxolitinib is a selective JAK1/2 inhibitor that is widely used for the treatment of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), including myelofibrosis and polycythemia vera (PV). Despite its clinical efficacy for MPNs, ruxolitinib possesses immunosuppressive properties that potentially increase the risks for opportunistic infection, such as mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection, and reactivation of occult viral infection. Herein, we report the case of a 76-year-old male with PV who developed tub  ...[more]

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