Cardiac antigen identified as mechanism for heart complication with immunotherapy-related myocarditis

Myocarditis is a complication that can occur in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Although the adverse event is rare -- affecting less than 1% of patients given the immunotherapy -- the mortality rate is nearly 50%. Now, researchers have identified the mechanism for the deadly heart inflammation.

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