Infected complex renal cysts during crizotinib therapy in a patient with non-small cell lung cancer positive for ALK rearrangement

Invest New Drugs. 2015 Apr;33(2):510-2. doi: 10.1007/s10637-014-0195-1. Epub 2014 Nov 30.

Abstract

Crizotinib is the first clinically available tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and is associated with the development of complex renal cysts. We now describe a 39-year-old woman who developed infected complex renal cysts during crizotinib treatment. After 10 months of such treatment, she presented with a high fever and low back pain. Computed tomography findings were consistent with complex renal cysts and perilesional inflammation. Interventions including cyst drainage and antibiotic administration contributed to diagnosis and management of the infected cysts.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / drug therapy*
  • Crizotinib
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Diseases, Cystic / chemically induced*
  • Kidney Diseases, Cystic / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Pyrazoles / adverse effects*
  • Pyrazoles / therapeutic use
  • Pyridines / adverse effects*
  • Pyridines / therapeutic use
  • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Pyrazoles
  • Pyridines
  • Crizotinib
  • ALK protein, human
  • Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase
  • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases