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Mepolizumab for Prednisone-Dependent Asthma with Sputum Eosinophilia

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2009

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Parameswaran Nair, Márcia Margaret Menezes Pizzichini, Melanie Kjarsgaard, Mark D. Inman, Ann Efthimiadis, Emílio Pizzichini, Frederick E. Hargreave, Paul M. O’Byrne
New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract

Mepolizumab reduced the number of blood and sputum eosinophils and allowed prednisone sparing in patients who had asthma with sputum eosinophilia despite prednisone treatment. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00292877.)

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