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Adding Omalizumab to the Therapy of Adolescents With Persistent Uncontrolled Moderate-Severe Allergic Asthma
Clinical Pediatrics, 09/18/09

Massanari M et al. – Omalizumab added to baseline therapy improves measures of asthma control in adolescents with persistent moderate–severe allergic asthma.

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M. Massanari, 10/09/09

Achieving control of asthma is often difficult, particularly among adolescent patients with moderate-severe disease . Serum IgE plays an important role in the allergic asthma cascade. Addition of omalizumab, a humanized monoclonal anti-IgE antibody, to inhaled corticosteroids improves asthma control by reducing exacerbations and improving symptoms.

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