Electrolyte Disorders Related to EGFR-targeting Drugs
Electrolyte Disorders Related to EGFR-Targeting Drugs
H Izzedine, R Bahleda, D Khayat, C Massard
Yes
20100201
2010 Mar 1
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol
Electrolyte Disorders Related to EGFR-targeting Drugs
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2010 Mar 1;73(3):213-219, H Izzedine, R Bahleda, D Khayat, C Massard
ABSTRACT
It is now clearly established that anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drug class induces hypertension and proteinuria sometimes related to thrombotic microangiopathy and/or various glomerulopathies, according to capillary and glomerular VEGF and VEGF-receptor expressions. As reported in the literature, anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapies seem to be less nephrotoxic. Indeed, many reports of anti-EGFR nephrotoxicity are tubular dependent such as acute tubular necrosis,...