Pathobiology of severe asthma

HE Trejo Bittar, SA Yousem… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Severe asthma (SA) afflicts a heterogeneous group of asthma patients who exhibit poor
responses to traditional asthma medications. SA patients likely represent 5–10% of all …

Recent advances in severe asthma: from phenotypes to personalized medicine

N Schoettler, ME Strek - Chest, 2020 - Elsevier
This review focuses on recent clinical and translational discoveries in severe and
uncontrolled asthma that now enable phenotyping and personalized therapies in these …

Pathophysiology of severe asthma: we've only just started

GG King, A James, L Harkness, PAB Wark - Respirology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Severe asthma is defined by the high treatment requirements to partly or fully control the
clinical manifestations of disease. It remains a problem worldwide with a large burden for …

Mechanisms of severe asthma

S Wenzel - Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanisms behind the development of severe asthma are poorly understood.
However, these patients disproportionately consume healthcare resources related to …

Molecular phenotyping and biomarker development: are we on our way towards targeted therapy for severe asthma?

L De Ferrari, A Chiappori, D Bagnasco… - Expert review of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Although different phenotypes of severe asthma can be identified, all are characterized by
common symptoms. Due to their heterogeneity, they exhibit differences in pathogenesis …

Use of biomarkers to identify phenotypes and endotypes of severe asthma

TF Carr, M Kraft - Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Severe asthma can be classified into phenotypes and endotypes, which may
inform clinicians about inflammatory pathways leading to disease and ultimately guide …

Recent advances in the immunopathogenesis of severe asthma

S Al Heialy, RK Ramakrishnan, Q Hamid - Journal of Allergy and Clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Severe asthma is a heterogeneous disease encompassing different phenotypes and
endotypes. Although patients with severe asthma constitute a small proportion of the total …

The investigation of severe asthma to define phenotypes

D Gibeon, KF Chung - Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Severe asthmatics often exhibit poor control despite high doses of inhaled corticosteroids
with or without systemic corticosteroids and suffer from persistent symptoms and/or recurrent …

Current concepts of severe asthma

A Ray, M Raundhal, TB Oriss, P Ray… - The Journal of clinical …, 2016 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The term asthma encompasses a disease spectrum with mild to very severe disease
phenotypes whose traditional common characteristic is reversible airflow limitation. Unlike …

Elucidating novel disease mechanisms in severe asthma

RY Kim, B Rae, R Neal, C Donovan… - Clinical & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Corticosteroids are broadly active and potent anti‐inflammatory agents that, despite the
introduction of biologics, remain as the mainstay therapy for many chronic inflammatory …