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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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A historical perspective: Are inhaled corticoids sufficient to control asthma?

TL;DR: Inhaled corticoids made a dramatic breakthrough in the management of asthma in the late eighties resulting in a sharp reduction in morbidity and mortality in the following decades, and the association between ICS and long acting β2 agonists (LABA) soon became the gold standard of maintenance asthma treatment.
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Omalizumab for the treatment of severe allergic asthma

TL;DR: The evidence for both clinical and cost–effectiveness of omalizumab in patients with severe asthma is examined and a 5-year view on the likely role of o malizumAB in clinical practice is given.
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Du phénotype clinique aux mécanismes traitables dans les maladies allergiques/atopiques : asthme et rhinite

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a vision phenotypique of l’asthme and the rhinite allergique, which are the pathologies respiratoires les plus frequentes.
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Activation of the Epithelial Mesenchymal Trophic Unit (EMTU) and markers of remodelling associated with asthma persistence and remission in early adulthood

Sian Evans
TL;DR: Compared markers of remodelling, inflammation and epithelial repair in young adults recruited from the well-established 1989 Isle of Wight Birth Cohort, to determine the similarities and differences between those young adults who had grown out of their childhood asthma and those who had not.
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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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