Clinical usefulness of mepolizumab in severe eosinophilic asthma

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 907-916

  Menzella, Francesco ^a   Lusuardi, Mirco ^a   Montanari, Gloria ^a   Galeone, Carla ^a   Facciolongo, Nicola ^a   Zucchi, Luigi ^a  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asthma; Biomarkers; Effectiveness; IL 5; Mepolizumab; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 5 RECEPTOR; MEPOLIZUMAB; PLACEBO;

ASTHMA; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG USE; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84973511460     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S86299     Document Type: Review

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