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Questions discussed in this category

When would you consider initiating antibiotic sinus rinses for recurrent sinus infections, assuming no other underlying pathology and normal infunction?
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Are there certain clinical features that help you choose between benralizumab and mepolizumab for EGPA in clinical practice?
Does the severity of asthma play a role in decision making?
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What is your approach to a patient with undetectable MMR titers checked prior to or during immunosuppression and a history of MMR vaccination in childhood?
Is there a role for booster vaccination and if so, how do you approach the timing when a patient is already on a biologic for immunosuppression? 
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Do you utilize cytokine panels to guide treatment of patients with EGPA?
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Are there benefits to adding IL5/IL5 receptor blockade in patients with vasculitic manifestations of EGPA?
1 Answer available
Is it necessary to prescribe a steroid taper after two weeks of high-dose prednisone (60 mg daily)?
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Is methacholine challenge on its way out?
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What features on PFT or flow-volume loops do you look at to suspect small airway dysfunction?
Often distal flattening of expiratory limb or decreased Fev25-50/FVC is referred for small airway dysfunction but it is advised against using it give ...
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Do you avoid use of inhalers with milk protein in patients with a milk allergy?
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Is there a role for biologics to help patients with ABPA who are steroid responsive and have removed their allergen insult, but continue to have an elevated serum IgE and incomplete resolution of symptoms return to their baseline functional status?
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Papers discussed in this category

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2004 Mar
Contamination of dry powder inhalers for asthma with milk proteins containing lactose.
Journal of clinical medicine, 2022 Dec 10
Lactose-Containing Dry-Powder Inhalers for Patients with Cow's Milk Protein Allergy-The Conundrum; A National Survey of Pediatric Pulmonologists and Allergologists.
Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2022 Dec 02
Perioperative Evaluation and Management of Patients on Glucocorticoids.
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021 Apr 20
Glucocorticoid Withdrawal-An Overview on When and How to Diagnose Adrenal Insufficiency in Clinical Practice.
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2021 Dec 30
Mepolizumab for Eosinophilic Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A European Multicenter Observational Study.
European journal of clinical investigation, 2024 Oct 10
Efficacy and safety of benralizumab in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis: A meta-analysis of eight studies.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 2019
Serum cytokine and chemokine levels in patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, hypereosinophilic syndrome, or eosinophilic asthma.
PloS one, 2015 Mar 26
Serum biomarkers in patients with relapsing eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss).
Frontiers in immunology, 2022 Jun 10
Serum Proteomic Analysis Identifies SAA1, FGA, SAP, and CETP as New Biomarkers for Eosinophilic Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2025 Mar 01
SERPINA3, FGA, AGP1, ITIH3 and SAA1 as novel biomarkers for eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis diagnosis and activity assessment.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2022 Jun 27
Comparative efficacy of mepolizumab, benralizumab, and dupilumab in eosinophilic asthma: A Bayesian network meta-analysis.

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