Domestic Parasitic Infections in Patients with Asthma and Eosinophilia in Germany - Three Cases with Learnings in the Era of Anti- IL5 Treatments.

anti-IL5 treatment asthma biologic eosinophilia parasitic infections

Journal

Journal of asthma and allergy
ISSN: 1178-6965
Titre abrégé: J Asthma Allergy
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 101543450

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2023
Historique:
received: 05 07 2023
accepted: 18 10 2023
medline: 15 11 2023
pubmed: 15 11 2023
entrez: 15 11 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Eosinophilic inflammation is a hallmark of asthma, and blood eosinophilia has been established as a biomarker for phenotyping asthma and predicting the response to anti-IL5 treatments. Although parasitic infections are rare in European adults, they remain an important differential diagnosis for blood eosinophilia. We present three patients with both domestic parasitic infections and asthma to raise awareness of the potential challenge of eosinophilia and to provide experience in the management of parasitic infections in the setting of planned or ongoing anti-IL5 treatment. One, a patient from Croatia with moderate asthma but severe blood eosinophilia had an underlying

Identifiants

pubmed: 37965273
doi: 10.2147/JAA.S428607
pii: 428607
pmc: PMC10642391
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

1229-1232

Informations de copyright

© 2023 Barnikel et al.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

KM received speaker fees from AstraZeneca, GSK, Novartis, and Sanofi, all outside of the submitted work.

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Auteurs

Michaela Barnikel (M)

Department of Medicine V, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.

Ulrich Grabmaier (U)

Department of Medicine I, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.

Pontus Mertsch (P)

Department of Medicine V, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.

Felix Ceelen (F)

Department of Pneumology, Asklepios-Fachkliniken Munich-Gauting, Gauting, Germany.

Christian Janke (C)

Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.

Jürgen Behr (J)

Department of Medicine V, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.

Nikolaus Kneidinger (N)

Department of Medicine V, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.

Katrin Milger (K)

Department of Medicine V, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.

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