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Severe Eosinophilic Asthma [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2019
Asthma is a heterogeneous disease with varying severity. Severe asthma is a subject of constant research because it greatly affects patients’ quality of life, and patients with severe asthma experience symptoms, exacerbations, and medication side effects.
Bakakos, A., Loukides, S., Bakakos, P.
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Experience with mepolizumab in adults with severe eosinophilic asthma: a case series from India

Respirology Case Reports, 2021
Severe asthma can be associated with eosinophilic or allergic phenotypes or both. Eosinophilic inflammation is associated with exacerbations and disease severity due to biological activity of interleukin‐5 (IL‐5).
Venkata Nagarjuna Maturu, Priti Meshram, Soumya Das, Ashok Kumar Rajput, Arun Chowdary Kotaru, Bhavesh Kotak, Neeraj Markandeywar, Simran Chhatwal   +7 more
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Biomarkers for severe eosinophilic asthma [PDF]

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2017
The last decade has seen the approval of several new biologics for the treatment of severe asthma-targeting specific endotypes and phenotypes. This review will examine how evidence generated from the mepolizumab clinical development program showed that blood eosinophil counts, rather than sputum or tissue eosinophil counts, evolved as a pharmacodynamic
Yancey, S, Keene, O, Albers, F, Ortega, H, Bates, S, Bleecker, E, Pavord, I   +6 more
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Neutrophils and Asthma

Diagnostics, 2022
Although eosinophilic inflammation is characteristic of asthma pathogenesis, neutrophilic inflammation is also marked, and eosinophils and neutrophils can coexist in some cases. Based on the proportion of sputum cell differentiation, asthma is classified
Akira Yamasaki, Ryota Okazaki, Tomoya Harada   +2 more
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Identifying clinical and demographic characteristic differences between eosinophilic and non-eosinophilic asthma and detecting predictors of eosinophilic asthma among Egyptian asthmatic patients

The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, 2022
Introduction Asthma is a heterogenous disease with various phenotypes that is characterized by airway limitation due to bronchospasm and airway inflammation associated with excessive mucus secretion.
Maged Mohamed Refaat, Riham Hazem Raafat, Heba Eid AbuAlia, Dina Sayed Sheha   +3 more
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Effect of fixed-dose subcutaneous reslizumab on asthma exacerbations in patients with severe uncontrolled asthma and corticosteroid sparing in patients with oral corticosteroid-dependent asthma : results from two phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials [PDF]

, 2020
BACKGROUND: Reslizumab 3 mg/kg administered intravenously is approved for the treatment of severe eosinophilic asthma. We assessed the safety and efficacy of subcutaneous reslizumab 110 mg in two trials in patients with uncontrolled severe asthma and ...
Adir, Yochai, Bernstein, Jonathan A, Brusselle, Guy, Castro, Mario, Garin, Margaret, Hickey, Lisa, Humbert, Marc, Jacobs, Joshua, Marsteller, Douglas A, Maspero, Jorge Fernando, McElhattan, Jennifer, Murphy, Kevin, Vanlandingham, Rebecca, Virchow, J Christian   +13 more
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Severe eosinophilic asthma [PDF]

European respiratory journal, 2017
A task force has identified key consensus issues for defining, diagnosing and treating severe eosinophilic asthmahttp://ow.ly ...
Buhl, Roland, Humbert, Marc, Bjermer, Leif, Chanez, Pascal, Heaney, Liam G., Pavord, Ian, Quirce, Santiago, Virchow, Johann C., Holgate, Stephen, Djukanovic, Ratko, Chung, Kian Fan, Canonica, Walter, Papi, Alberto, Brightling, Chris, Horváth, Ildiko, Walker, Samantha, Brusselle, Guy, Backer, Vibeke, Kuna, Piotr, Bel, Elisabeth, De Llano, Luis Perez, Rabe, Klaus   +21 more
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Evaluation of coagulation activation after Rhinovirus infection in patients with asthma and healthy control subjects: an observational study [PDF]

, 2014
Background Asthma exacerbations are frequently triggered by rhinovirus infections. Both asthma and respiratory tract infection can activate haemostasis. Therefore we hypothesized that experimental rhinovirus-16 infection and asthmatic airway inflammation
Bel, EHD, De Pol, MAV, Johnston, SL, Kamphuisen, PW, Lutter, R, Majoor, CJ, Meijers, JCM, Molenkamp, R, Nieuwland, R, Sterk, PJ, Van der Poll, T, Van der Sluijs, KF, Wolthers, KC   +12 more
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PRevalence of the Eosinophilic Phenotype Among SeveRE asthma patients in Lebanon: results of the PREPARE study

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2023
Background The prevalence of eosinophilic asthma in Lebanon, one of the most severe phenotypes among severe asthma, is not known. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of the eosinophilic phenotype defined as an eosinophil count ≥ 300 cells/mm3 ...
Wajdi Abi Saleh, Zuhair Alameh, Zeina Aoun Bacha, Joudy Bahous, Pierre Bou Khalil, Zahia Chahine, Hassan Chami, Georges Dabar, Hassan Dheiny, Alfred Dib, Dany farhat, Carla Irani, Georges Juvelekian, Nadim Kanj, Bassam Mansour, Moussa Riachi, Mirna Waked, Mohamad Yassine, Carole Youakim, Salah Zeinedine, Fares Zaitoun   +20 more
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Effectiveness of Benralizumab in Improving the Quality of Life of Severe Eosinophilic Asthmatic Patients: Our Real-Life Experience

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
Background: Severe eosinophilic asthma decreases lung function and causes worsen symptoms, often forcing recurrent maintenance corticosteroid use. The aim of our real-life study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an add-on treatment with benralizumab ...
Giulia Scioscia, Giulia Scioscia, Giovanna Elisiana Carpagnano, Carla Maria Irene Quarato, Carla Maria Irene Quarato, Donato Lacedonia, Donato Lacedonia, Sonia Santamaria, Sonia Santamaria, Piera Soccio, Annarita Depalo, Paolo Fuso, Paolo Fuso, Maria Pia Foschino Barbaro, Maria Pia Foschino Barbaro   +14 more
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