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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
- pp 425-434
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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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Corticosteroid responsiveness and clinical characteristics in childhood difficult asthma

TL;DR: Only 11% of DA children exhibited complete corticosteroid responsiveness, which suggests alternative therapies are needed for children with DA, according to a cross-sectional study on 102 patients.
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Anti-interleukin-5 therapy in severe asthma.

TL;DR: This review will consider new treatments options for severe asthma, particularly those targeting IL-5, that have already been evaluated in clinical trials in asthmatic patients.
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Use of the Asthma Control Questionnaire to predict future risk of asthma exacerbation

TL;DR: The utility of the composite ACQ score measurement to predict risk of future exacerbation in clinical trials and clinical practice is found to be a better predictor of future risk than individual ACQ components.
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Omalizumab for the treatment of inadequately controlled allergic rhinitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

TL;DR: Omalizumab is statistically significantly associated with symptom relief, decreased rescue medication use, and improvement of quality of life in patients with inadequately controlled allergic rhinosinusitis.
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Type 2 immunity in asthma.

TL;DR: This review will include an update on the relevance of dysregulation of innate and adaptive type 2-immunity in asthma pathogenesis, particularly severe asthma, and on the role of the allergens that are associated with severe asthma.
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Evaluation of impairment of health related quality of life in asthma: development of a questionnaire for use in clinical trials.

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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