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ReviewAllergologie select2024

Asthma therapy concepts through the ages.

Marek Lommatzsch

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Review in Allergologie select, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marek LommatzschDepartment of Pneumology, Rostock University Medical Centre, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
University of Rostock · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development and approval of DMAADs ("disease-modifying anti-asthmatic drugs"), in particular inhaled steroids (alone or in combination with long-acting bronchodilators), biologics and modern allergen immunotherapies, has fundamentally changed the asthma therapy concept from symptom control to symptom prevention. This concept is linked to the new asthma treatment goal of asthma remission: long-term absence of symptoms (good asthma control), absence of exacerbations, and stable lung function, without the use of systemic steroids for asthma therapy. Three types of asthma remission are distinguished: spontaneous remission (e.g., childhood asthma), remission "off treatment" (e.g., after successful allergen immunotherapy), and remission "on treatment" (e.g., during inhaled therapy or biologic therapy). A treat-to-target approach is used, as in rheumatoid arthritis or chronic inflammatory bowel disease: The goal is to achieve asthma remission, through individually tailored treatment with highly effective drugs with minimal side effects. However, this requires precise phenotyping of the patient, including detailed history taking, pulmonary function diagnostics, allergological diagnostics, and measurement of type 2 biomarkers.

Indexed as

asthmaDMAADsremissionsymptom prevention

Identifiers

PMID38249818
PMCPMC10795490
OpenAlexW4390789483

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Registered trials

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