What is your second line therapy for patients with EGPA with mainly pulmonary and sinonasal features who did not respond to mepolizumab 300 mg/month and still require high doses of steroid?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
This is an important question. Benralizumab has recently been shown to have similar efficacy to mepolizumab with a suggestion of a greater number of patients being able to fully discontinue steroids when treated with benralizumab as compared to mepolizumab. On the basis of this study I would use ben...
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at University of California (San Francisco) School of Medicine Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) is a checkpoint inhibitor...
at Massachusetts General Hospital Yes, thank you for catching that mistake. I had me...
Guidelines for the treatment of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) are based on limited data from clinical trials or even protocol-based cohorts. However, there are several ongoing and planned randomized controlled trials that will likely help inform new approaches to treating this...
Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) is a checkpoint inhibitor...
Yes, thank you for catching that mistake. I had me...