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[Bilateral papillary edema associated to immunotherapy]

Cédric Orban1, Maxime Dequinze1

  • 1Service d'Ophtalmologie, CHR Citadelle, Liège, Belgique.

Revue Medicale De Liege
|August 3, 2026
PubMed

Immunotherapy has become the treatment of choice in a lot of metastatic diseases including melanoma, improving the prognosis. However, there are a lot of specific and multisystemic side effects. We report the case of a 68-year-old woman treated with combined immunotherapy for a metastatic melanoma who presented a severe right eye sight loss due to a papillary edema.

Keywords:
ImmunotherapyMelanomaPapillary edemaSide effects

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