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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?

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Rheumatology · Massachusetts General Hospital

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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Rheumatology · Director, Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium

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...

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