Do you de-escalate back to medium-dose ICS after starting dupilumab in a patient whose uncontrolled severe asthma had not responded adequately to high-dose ICS?
Busse et al., PMID 42178021
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Do you de-escalate back to medium-dose ICS after starting dupilumab in a patient whose uncontrolled severe asthma had not responded adequately to high-dose ICS?
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Pulmonology · Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
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Yes, I will often de-escalate if patients are well controlled after adding a biologic. In fact, I have had times when patients decrease the frequency of their dose or even stop their controller inhalers (on their own) after a good response to biologic therapy. In these cases, it can sometimes be a c...
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