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Benefits of omalizumab as add-on therapy in patients with severe persistent asthma who are inadequately controlled despite best available therapy (GINA 2002 step 4 treatment): INNOVATE

Marc Humbert, +2 more
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The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 848 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Omalizumab.

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Omalizumab in asthma: is the therapeutic window too small?

TL;DR: This report reemphasizes the folly of using 80% predicted as a threshold to separate normal from abnormal for other pulmonary function parameters and improves the reporting of data from pulmonary function laboratories.

Drug Class Review: Controller Medications for Asthma

TL;DR: The purpose of this report is to make available information regarding the comparative effectiveness and safety profiles of different drugs within pharmaceutical classes.
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Improvement of asthma control with omalizumab in 2 obese pediatric asthma patients

TL;DR: Patients with difficult-to-treat asthma may benefit from receiving omalizumab even if they fall outside current dosing guidelines because of high body weight, as reported in 2 obese pediatric patients with severe persistent asthma.
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Ethnic differences in adverse drug reactions to asthma medications: a systematic review

TL;DR: It is suggested that the inclusion of ADR analysis by different ethnic backgrounds is desirable, and despite the higher prevalence of asthma among specific ethnic minority groups, few studies disaggregated information by ethnic background, and reports of ADRs to asthma medications in different ethnic groups were rare.
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TL;DR: A questionnaire suitable for all adults with asthma and designed to be responsive to within subject change and therefore may be used as a measure of outcome in clinical trials in asthma is developed.

Allergy, rhinitis, other respiratory diseases Omalizumab, anti-IgE recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of severe allergic asthma

TL;DR: Omalizumab as discussed by the authors is a recombinant humanized anti-IgE mAb, which forms complexes with free IgE, blocking its interaction with mast cells and basophils.
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The anti-IgE antibody omalizumab reduces exacerbations and steroid requirement in allergic asthmatics

TL;DR: Results indicate that omalizumab therapy safely improves asthma control in allergic asthmatics who remain symptomatic despite regular use of inhaled corticosteroids and simultaneous reduction in Corticosteroid requirement.
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