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Clinical usefulness of mepolizumab in severe eosinophilic asthma

Overview of attention for article published in Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, June 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Clinical usefulness of mepolizumab in severe eosinophilic asthma
Published in
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, June 2016
DOI 10.2147/tcrm.s86299
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Francesco Menzella, Mirco Lusuardi, Gloria Montanari, Carla Galeone, Nicola Facciolongo, Luigi Zucchi

Abstract

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways with variable clinical severity from very mild and occasional symptoms to recurrent critical exacerbations, at risk of fatal or near-fatal outcome, in a small percentage of patients. Within the different inflammatory cascades involved in asthma, eosinophils play a central role in the pathogenesis and largely influence disease severity. Interleukin-5 (IL-5) is the main cytokine controlling eosinophil activity and proliferation at the site of inflammation. Mepolizumab was the first biological humanized anti-IL-5 monoclonal antibody tested in randomized clinical trials on eosinophilic asthma and other eosinophilic diseases. On the basis of several positive clinical efficacy data, it has recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of severe eosinophilic asthma. Unfortunately, high costs are at present a critical issue. Future studies will probably help in the correct selection of a potential "responder phenotype", allowing the prescription of this promising therapy to appropriate patients and best define cost-effectiveness issues.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 3%
Unknown 35 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 17%
Other 5 14%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 11%
Professor 2 6%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 9 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 50%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Physics and Astronomy 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 9 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 July 2016.
All research outputs
#3,274,690
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
#155
of 1,323 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#55,045
of 353,662 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
#4
of 51 outputs
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