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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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Pulmonology · University of Oklahoma

We have a fairly large number of ABPA patients on Omalizumab. It works great.

One of the issues we frequently encounter is that ABPA patients sometimes have too high of IGE counts for the approved highest Omalizumab dosage.

In these patients, we initially treat them with standard prednisone therap...

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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? | Mednet