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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2022

Omalizumab: An Optimal Choice for Patients with Severe Allergic Asthma.

Serafeim Chrysovalantis Kotoulas, Ioanna Tsiouprou, Eva Fouka, Athanasia Pataka, Despoina Papakosta, Konstantinos Porpodis

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Serafeim Chrysovalantis KotoulasPulmonary Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "G. Papanikolaou'' General Hospital, Exohi, 57010 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6092-1341
Ioanna TsiouprouPulmonary Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "G. Papanikolaou'' General Hospital, Exohi, 57010 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8740-3504
Eva FoukaPulmonary Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "G. Papanikolaou'' General Hospital, Exohi, 57010 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Athanasia PatakaPulmonary Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "G. Papanikolaou'' General Hospital, Exohi, 57010 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3252-6694
Despoina PapakostaPulmonary Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "G. Papanikolaou'' General Hospital, Exohi, 57010 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Konstantinos PorpodisPulmonary Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "G. Papanikolaou'' General Hospital, Exohi, 57010 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7215-2191
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Omalizumab is the first monoclonal antibody that was globally approved as a personalized treatment option for patients with moderate-to-severe allergic asthma. This review summarizes the knowledge of almost two decades of use of omalizumab to answer some important everyday clinical practice questions, concerning its efficacy and safety and its association with other asthma-related and drug-related parameters. Evidence suggests that omalizumab improves asthma control and reduces the incidence and frequency of exacerbations in patients with severe allergic asthma. Omalizumab is also effective in those patients in reducing corticosteroid use and healthcare utilization, while it also seems to improve lung function. Several biomarkers have been recognized in predicting its efficacy in its target group of patients, while the optimal duration for evaluating its efficacy is between 16 and 32 weeks.

Indexed as

IgEomalizumabsevere allergic asthma

Identifiers

PMID35207654
PMCPMC8878072
OpenAlexW4214729149

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