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Durvalumab-associated nephrotic syndrome and organizing pneumonia: a case report.

Article C Peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

Doctors describe one patient, a 68-year-old man with advanced lung cancer, who started leaking large amounts of protein in his urine while taking the cancer drug durvalumab. A kidney biopsy tied the damage to the drug. This is a single case, so it shows a link, not proof that the drug causes this in others. It is a reminder that some cancer immune drugs can hit the kidneys.

Who did this work

Nawata T · Shibuya M · Asami-Noyama M · Uesugi N · Sano M

Source

Article · PubMed, the drug frontier · 2026 Sep 2
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42684586/