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  1. Article

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    APPaRENT 3: Asthma Patients’ and Physicians' Perspectives on the Burden and Management of Asthma in Seven Countries

    Asthma management is strongly dependent on physician and patient beliefs and perceptions about the disease and its long-term treatment. The APPaRENT 3 study was conducted to explore factors influencing treatme...

    Bhumika Aggarwal, Mohamed Al-Moamary, Riyad Allehebi, Ashraf Alzaabi in Advances in Therapy (2024)

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    Exploring Clinical Remission in Moderate Asthma – Perspectives from Asia, the Middle East, and South America

    Clinical remission is a relatively new concept in asthma but recent research initiatives suggest it could be an ambitious and achievable therapeutic target for patients with asthma.

    Kittipong Maneechotesuwan, Bhumika Aggarwal, Gabriel Garcia in Pulmonary Therapy (2024)

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    Association between interleukin-6-174G/C gene polymorphism and asthma severity: exploring the role of total serum IgE, blood eosinophils, and FeNO as markers of type 2 inflammation

    While a connection has been established between serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels and the IL-6 gene (− 174G/C) polymorphism in allergic diseases such as asthma, its specific association with severe asthma remains...

    Mona Al-Ahmad, Asmaa Ali, Ahmed Maher in Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (2024)

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    Factors influencing poor response to type 2 targeted therapies in severe asthma: a retrospective cohort study

    A significant breakthrough has been made in treating severe asthma, with the recognition of various asthma phenotypes and an updated management guideline. Type 2 targeted therapies, such as benralizumab and om...

    Mona Al-Ahmad, Asmaa Ali, Ahmed Maher in BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2023)

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    Baseline Demographics, Comorbidities, Treatment Patterns and Burden of Atopic Dermatitis in Adults and Adolescents from the GLOBOSTAD Long-Term Observational Study

    Insights into real-world treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD) are relevant to clinical decision making. The aim of this analysis was to characterize patients who receive dupilumab for AD in a real-world setting.

    Piergiacomo Calzavara-Pinton, Jarmila Čelakovská, Hilde Lapeere in Advances in Therapy (2023)

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    Comorbid asthma in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: did dupilumab make a difference?

    The clinical heterogeneity of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and bronchial asthma is attributable to different underlying inflammatory profiles. However, the similarity between CRS with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and...

    Mona Al-Ahmad, Asmaa Ali, Mustafa Khalaf, Abdulmohsen Alterki in BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2023)

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    A Renewed Charter: Key Principles to Improve Patient Care in Severe Asthma

    Asthma is a heterogenous respiratory disease, usually associated with chronic airway inflammation and hyper-responsiveness, which affects an estimated 339 million people worldwide. Severe asthma affects approx...

    Andrew Menzies-Gow, David J. Jackson, Mona Al-Ahmad in Advances in Therapy (2022)

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    Breaking the vicious circle—the Asthma Referral Identifier (ReferID) tool

    Asthma is associated with a significant burden of disease, especially for patients with severe or uncontrolled asthma. Many patients with severe asthma still receive treatment in primary care settings and desp...

    Maarten Beekman, Julie Hales, Mona Al-Ahmad in npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine (2022)

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    Isolated thrombosis after COVID-19 vaccination: case series

    Data regarding thrombosis after COVID-19 vaccination are scarce.

    Mona Al-Ahmad, Mona Al Rasheed, Lulwa Altourah in International Journal of Hematology (2022)

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    Allergic and Non-allergic Rhinitis

    Allergic rhinitis is a common disease with a reported prevalence ranging between 10 and 30%. It has a significant impact on the patients’ health, quality of life, and work performance. In this chapter, the pat...

    Mona Al-Ahmad, Mohammed Hassab, Ali Al Ansari in Textbook of Clinical Otolaryngology (2021)

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    Association of molds and metrological parameters to frequency of severe asthma exacerbation

    Sensitization to airborne molds may be a risk factor for severe asthma and direct cause of asthma exacerbation (AE).

    Mona Al-Ahmad, Edin Jusufovic, Nermina Arifhodzic in Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (2019)

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    Erratum to: Risk and safety requirements for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in allergology: World Allergy Organization Statement

    Marek L. Kowalski, Ignacio Ansotegui, Werner Aberer in World Allergy Organization Journal (2017)

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    Risk and safety requirements for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in allergology: World Allergy Organization Statement

    One of the major concerns in the practice of allergy is related to the safety of procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disease. Management (diagnosis and treatment) of hypersensitivity disorde...

    Marek L. Kowalski, Ignacio Ansotegui, Werner Aberer in World Allergy Organization Journal (2016)

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    7th drug hypersensitivity meeting: part one

    Oral Abstracts

    Daniel F. Carr, Wen-Hung Chung, Rosalind E. Jenkiins in Clinical and Translational Allergy (2016)

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    XXIV World Allergy Congress 2015

    A1 Pirfenidone inhibits TGF-b1-induced extracellular matrix production in nasal polyp-derived fibroblasts

    Heung-Man Lee, Il-Ho Park, Jae-Min Shin in World Allergy Organization Journal (2016)

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    Meteorological conditions, climate change, new emerging factors, and asthma and related allergic disorders. A statement of the World Allergy Organization

    The prevalence of allergic airway diseases such as asthma and rhinitis has increased dramatically to epidemic proportions worldwide. Besides air pollution from industry derived emissions and motor vehicles, th...

    Gennaro D’Amato, Stephen T. Holgate, Ruby Pawankar in World Allergy Organization Journal (2015)

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    Penicillin allergy evaluation: experience from Kuwait

    Mona Al-Ahmad, Tito Rodriguez Bouza in Clinical and Translational Allergy (2014)

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    Allergic diseases of the skin and drug allergies – 2005. Common causes of allergic contact dermatitis in Kuwait

    Mona Al-Ahmad, Nermina Arifohdzic, Naser Fakim in World Allergy Organization Journal (2013)