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ReviewPulmonary therapy2025

Εosinophilic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. What Do We Know So Far?

Konstantinos Bartziokas, Andriana I Papaioannou, Nikoletta Rovina, Georgia Papaiakovou, Stelios Loukides, Paschalis Steiropoulos

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Review in Pulmonary therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Mucus Plugs and Eosinophilic Inflammation: Expanding the Paradigm to COPD.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Konstantinos BartziokasPrivate Sector, 42131, Trikala, Greece.
Andriana I Papaioannou1st Respiratory Medicine Department, Medical School, Sotiria Chest Diseases Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Nikoletta Rovina1st Respiratory Medicine Department, Medical School, Sotiria Chest Diseases Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Georgia PapaiakovouSchool of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Stelios Loukides2nd Respiratory Medicine Department, Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Paschalis SteiropoulosDepartment of Pneumonology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100, Alexandroupolis, Greece. steiropoulos@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7121-6253

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The latest advances in asthma treatment have highlighted the significance of eosinophilia and the possible role of some pro-eosinophilic mediators, like interleukins (IL) IL-5, IL-4/IL-13, and IL-33 in the disease's pathogenesis. Considering that a subgroup of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may have blood eosinophilia akin to that seen in asthma, numerous studies in the last decade have suggested that eosinophilic COPD is a separate entity. While the exact role of blood eosinophils in the pathophysiology of COPD remains unclear, eosinophilia seems to increase the effectiveness of corticosteroid therapy. Currently, monoclonal antibodies targeting the interleukins (IL-5, IL-4, IL-13, and IL-33) or their receptors are being investigated in patients with COPD belonging in T2-high endotype. This review focuses on the mechanisms of eosinophilia in COPD, the effects of eosinophilia on disease outcome, and examines the most recent data on the use of peripheral blood eosinophilia in treating patients with COPD. Finally, we emphasize the current implication of monoclonal antibodies in COPD in the context of eosinophilic airway inflammation.

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COPDCorticosteroidEosinophilsExacerbationsMonoclonal antibodies

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PMID39661227
PMCPMC11861475

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