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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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Real-life Efficacy of Omalizumab After 9 Years of Follow-up.

TL;DR: Long-term maintenance treatment with omalizumab for up to 9 years is associated with continued benefits in reducing symptoms, exacerbations, and medication burden without any safety concerns.
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Drop-out rate among patients treated with omalizumab for severe asthma: Literature review and real-life experience

TL;DR: Treatment adherence is particularly crucial in patients with severe asthma considering the clinical impact of the disease and the cost of non-adherence, and the risk of treatment discontinuation has to be carefully considered both in the experimental and real-life settings.
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Cost-utility of add-on omalizumab in difficult-to-treat allergic asthma in Italy.

TL;DR: Omalizumab added to an optimised therapy significantly improves clinical outcomes in difficult-to-treat, persistent allergic asthma and both costs for drugs and hospital care dropped significantly, and the net economic effect was a 350 Euro increase in overall monthly costs.
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Lebrikizumab in the personalized management of asthma.

TL;DR: Two large Phase III randomized controlled trials in patients with uncontrolled asthma are underway to establish the safety and efficacy of lebrikizumab when administered over a 52-week period, and to determine whether identifying patients with a Th2 high inflammatory phenotype using serum periostin allows a personalized approach to the treatment of asthma.
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Beneficial Effects of Treatment With Anti-IgE Antibodies (Omalizumab) in a Patient With Severe Asthma and Negative Skin-Prick Test Results

TL;DR: A patient with severe asthma and elevated total IgE who had a negative radioallergosorbent (RAST) test result and a negative skin-prick test result is discussed; the patient showed a dramatic improvement with this treatment strategy.
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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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