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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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Tailoring Treatment in Obstructive Lung Disease: Asthma, COPD, Asthma/COPD Overlap and Eosinophilic COPD

TL;DR: Both diagnosis and treatment of COPD and asthma and the recently established disease asthma/COPD overlap (ACO) and the particular challenges treating obstructive lung disease in elderly patients is more challenging than in younger patients.
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Biologic therapy in severe asthma: An update

TL;DR: Symptom control in the majority of asthma patients is usually achieved with the gold standard regimen, inhaled corticosteroid (ICS), however approximately 20% of patients do not achieve control, increasing mortality, morbidity and overall healthcare cost.
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Biologics in severe difficult-to-treat asthma: find the right niche!

TL;DR: It is very difficult to predict the efficacy of biologics in severe asthma and only one MAb directed to immunoglobulin (Ig)E was found to be effective and approved by both the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of a subset of allergicAsthma patients.

Omalizumab en las guías de tratamiento del asma

TL;DR: Omalizumab as mentioned in this paper was the primera incorporación novedosa en las guias del asma por su especificidad, dirigirse a un mecanismo concreto de la inflamacion asmatica: el bloqueo de los receptores de alta afinidad IgE en the membrana de los mastocitos, con el objetivo de evitar la liberacion de mediadores de the inflamación asmatica; esto ocurrio en 2005 and, desde
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