Pulmonology

Allergy & Immunology

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What factors do you consider prior to offering a trial of ICS/LABA therapy versus a methacholine challenge test in patients with suspected asthma but normal pulmonary function testing?

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Do you diagnose obstruction by the criteria of FEV1/FVC < 70% or < LLN?

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What is your approach to inhaler therapy in a patient with asthma who cannot be on an inhaled corticosteroid due to ocular disease?

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What is your threshold to start triple therapy in mild to moderate asthma/COPD overlap with minimal functional limitation?

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What are best practices in management of severe acute infusion reaction from infliximab?

Patient became acutely flushed, developed severe and prolonged hypotension with brief loss of consciousness, dizziness, nausea, dry heaves and headach...

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Is there a role for biologics to help patients with ABPA who are steroid responsive and have removed their allergen insult, but continue to have an elevated serum IgE and incomplete resolution of symptoms return to their baseline functional status?

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Is there a role for the use of biologics as steroid sparing agents in treating patients with ABPA who are intolerant to prednisone?

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Do you use continuous or intermittent bronchodilator therapy in severe airway obstruction?

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Is there any PFT criteria that you use in guiding decision making to offer transbronchial lung cryobiopsy to patients with interstitial lung disease?

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Is there a role for biologic therapies in asthma-COPD overlap syndrome with evidence of type 2 inflammation?

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What is your preferred regimen for remission induction and maintenance in EGPA with cardiac involvement?

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Which EGPA patients are most likely to benefit from treatment with anti-IL-5 agents such as mepolizumab?

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Which ANCA vasculitis patients are better candidates for cyclophosphamide rather than rituximab?

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How does your treatment algorithm differ for drug-induced ANCA vasculitis compared to non drug-induced ANCA vasculitis in cases with severe/organ-threatening manifestations?

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Papers discussed in this category

The New England journal of medicine, 2010-07-15

Rituximab versus cyclophosphamide in ANCA-associated renal vasculitis.

Medicine (Baltimore),

The Five-Factor Score revisited: assessment of prognoses of systemic necrotizing vasculitides based on the French Vasculitis Study Group (FVSG) cohort.

The New England journal of medicine, 2010-07-15

Rituximab versus cyclophosphamide for ANCA-associated vasculitis.

The New England journal of medicine, 2017-05-18

Mepolizumab or Placebo for Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2000-04

Practice guidelines for diseases caused by Aspergillus. Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Chest, 2018 Jan 11

A Randomized Trial of Itraconazole vs Prednisolone in Acute-Stage Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis Complicating Asthma.

J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract, 2021 Mar 06

Real-World Effectiveness of Anti-IL-5/5R Therapy in Severe Atopic Eosinophilic Asthma with Fungal Sensitization.

Chest, 2020 Aug 31

Real-World Effectiveness of Benralizumab in Severe Eosinophilic Asthma.

J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract, 2020 Jun 16

Omalizumab Is an Effective Intervention in Severe Asthma with Fungal Sensitization.

Cureus, 2020 Aug 12

Mepolizumab as Possible Treatment for Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis: A Review of Eight Cases.

J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract, 2015 Jan 29

Clinical efficacy and immunologic effects of omalizumab in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.

The American journal of gastroenterology, 2003 Jun

The incidence and management of infusion reactions to infliximab: a large center experience.

The Journal of rheumatology, 2015 Jun 15

Incidence and Management of Infusion Reactions to Infliximab in a Prospective Real-world Community Registry.

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