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  1. Article ; Online: Effectiveness of dupilumab versus endoscopic sinus surgery for the treatment of type-2 chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: a preliminary report.

    Orlando, Pietro / Licci, Giuseppe / Kuitche, Donald / Matucci, Andrea / Vultaggio, Alessandra / Gallo, Oreste / Maggiore, Giandomenico

    European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

    2023  Volume 281, Issue 3, Page(s) 1317–1324

    Abstract: Purpose: Historically managed with intranasal corticosteroids (INCS) and endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), type-2 Chronic RhinoSinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP) treatment was revolutionized by the introduction of dupilumab but universally accepted ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: Historically managed with intranasal corticosteroids (INCS) and endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), type-2 Chronic RhinoSinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP) treatment was revolutionized by the introduction of dupilumab but universally accepted guidelines are still lacking.
    Methods: Patients treated at our University Hospital for type-2 CRSwNP were enrolled. Demographic data were collected, as well as laboratory (eosinophils, total IgE), endoscopic [nasal polyps score (NPS), modified Lund-Kennedy score (mLKS)], radiological [Lund-Mackay score (LMS) at CT scan], SNOT-22, and olfactory [Sniffin' Sticks identification test (SSIT)] features. Patients were treated with dupilumab or ESS and re-evaluated after 3 and 12 months.
    Results: At 3 and 12 months, patients undergoing ESS achieved a higher reduction of NPS and mLKS, while patients receiving dupilumab experienced a higher improvement at SNOT-22 and SSIT with a greater positive variation in the prevalence of anosmia (- 57.7% vs - 42.9%) and normosmia (+ 37.8 vs + 28.5%). Mean mLKS and LMS were quite similar. Results were independent of clinical features known to contribute to CRSwNP severity, except for patients with ≥ 2 prior ESS who had a significantly lower smell improvement.
    Conclusion: ESS and dupilumab were effective at reducing CRSwNP inflammatory burning. CRSwNP smell impairment cannot be attributed only to olfactory cleft obstruction and other mechanisms may be involved. Dupilumab acts systemically with poor correlation with NPS. As of today, dupilumab appears to be more suitable for elderly patients with anesthesiological contraindications and/or several previous surgeries, while ESS may represent the first-line choice in surgery-naive patients.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Aged ; Nasal Polyps/complications ; Nasal Polyps/drug therapy ; Nasal Polyps/surgery ; Rhinosinusitis ; Rhinitis/complications ; Rhinitis/drug therapy ; Rhinitis/surgery ; Sinusitis/complications ; Sinusitis/drug therapy ; Sinusitis/surgery ; Chronic Disease ; Quality of Life ; Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
    Chemical Substances dupilumab (420K487FSG) ; Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-01
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1017359-6
    ISSN 1434-4726 ; 0937-4477
    ISSN (online) 1434-4726
    ISSN 0937-4477
    DOI 10.1007/s00405-023-08309-x
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  2. Article ; Online: "Patient remodeling" as a consequence of uncontrolled and prolonged OCS use in severe asthma: how biologic therapy can reverse a dangerous trend.

    Perlato, Margherita / Mecheri, Valentina / Vivarelli, Emanuele / Accinno, Matteo / Vultaggio, Alessandra / Matucci, Andrea

    The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma

    2023  Volume 61, Issue 1, Page(s) 72–75

    Abstract: Introduction: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that can lead to airways remodeling. Despite their well-known side-effects, oral corticosteroids (OCS) continue to be used to reduce exacerbations and control asthma symptoms in many patients.: ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that can lead to airways remodeling. Despite their well-known side-effects, oral corticosteroids (OCS) continue to be used to reduce exacerbations and control asthma symptoms in many patients.
    Case study: We describe two cases of uncontrolled severe asthma characterized by systemic clinical consequences of prolonged OCS use, such as diabetes, weight gain, and osteoporosis.
    Results: Both patients were treated with Dupilumab. During follow-up both patients showed an improvement in asthma control and were able to gradually taper the OCS dose, thus reducing the clinical burden associated with hypercortisolism.
    Conclusion: Dupilumab was able to control both the inflammatory-induced "airway remodeling" as well as the OCS-induced "patient remodeling".
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Asthma/diagnosis ; Anti-Asthmatic Agents/adverse effects ; Adrenal Cortex Hormones/therapeutic use
    Chemical Substances Anti-Asthmatic Agents ; Adrenal Cortex Hormones
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-24
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 603816-5
    ISSN 1532-4303 ; 0277-0903
    ISSN (online) 1532-4303
    ISSN 0277-0903
    DOI 10.1080/02770903.2023.2241910
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  3. Article ; Online: Anaphylactic reactions to biological drugs.

    Matucci, Andrea / Vultaggio, Alessandra / Nencini, Francesca / Maggi, Enrico

    Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology

    2020  Volume 20, Issue 4, Page(s) 346–351

    Abstract: Purpose of review: This review summarizes the current knowledge of the pathogenic mechanisms of biologics-induced anaphylaxis, and the diagnostic and prophylactic strategies in the management of potentially reactive patients, to improve the safety ... ...

    Abstract Purpose of review: This review summarizes the current knowledge of the pathogenic mechanisms of biologics-induced anaphylaxis, and the diagnostic and prophylactic strategies in the management of potentially reactive patients, to improve the safety profile of biologics.
    Recent findings: The recent knowledge on the topic highlights the involvement of both effector and regulatory mechanisms in the immune response to biological agents. In addition, the impact of biological's immunogenicity on hypersensitivity reactions has been confirmed in a wider number of studies, defining some details about the kinetics of antidrug antibodies development, specifically immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin E (IgE).
    Summary: Biological agents may induce anaphylaxis, mainly through the induction of antidrug antibodies. Biologics-related infusion reactions are often clinically consistent with type I hypersensitivity, but IgG antidrug antibodies may also be involved. The immune response toward biologicals is orchestrated by both effector and regulatory T cells. In addition, nonantibody-dependent mechanisms may occur. Among clinicians persists today again a low awareness, not only of the possibility to understand the immunological mechanisms behind anaphylaxis to biologicals but also the opportunity to apply potential strategies for the management of reactive patients aimed to guarantee a safe retreatment.
    MeSH term(s) Anaphylaxis/chemically induced ; Anaphylaxis/diagnosis ; Anaphylaxis/immunology ; Anaphylaxis/therapy ; Biological Products/administration & dosage ; Biological Products/adverse effects ; Drug Hypersensitivity/diagnosis ; Drug Hypersensitivity/immunology ; Drug Hypersensitivity/therapy ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin E/immunology ; Immunoglobulin G/immunology ; Infusions, Intravenous ; T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology ; T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory/immunology
    Chemical Substances Biological Products ; Immunoglobulin G ; Immunoglobulin E (37341-29-0)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-06-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2088710-3
    ISSN 1473-6322 ; 1528-4050
    ISSN (online) 1473-6322
    ISSN 1528-4050
    DOI 10.1097/ACI.0000000000000666
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  4. Article ; Online: Systemic hypereosinophilic syndromes: when autoimmunity is Th2 mediated.

    Matucci, Andrea / Nencini, Francesca / Maggi, Enrico / Vultaggio, Alessandra

    Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology

    2020  Volume 20, Issue 2, Page(s) 175–180

    Abstract: Purpose of review: Clinical conditions associated with hypereosinophilia represent a field of particular interest, taking into account the epidemiological impact of the different primary and secondary forms. In addition to a classical Th1 response, also ...

    Abstract Purpose of review: Clinical conditions associated with hypereosinophilia represent a field of particular interest, taking into account the epidemiological impact of the different primary and secondary forms. In addition to a classical Th1 response, also Th2 cells can be involved in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, among them eosinophilic forms such as eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis.
    Recent findings: In patients with severe asthma, recent evidence highlights the role of pathogenic autoantibodies against autologous eosinophil proteins (e.g. eosinophil peroxidase) suggest the role of autoimmune mechanisms, particularly in patients in which asthma is included in eosinophilic vasculitis with antineutrophilic autoantibody positivity. Is now evident that in addition to Th2 cells, also type 2 innate lymphoid cells and Th1/Th17 cells play a central role in the pathogenesis of hypereosinophilic syndrome.
    Summary: The definition of cellular and molecular mechanisms and the critical role of specific cytokines involved in the pathogenesis of hypereosinophilic syndrome open the way to new therapeutic strategies by using biological agents targeting these specific factors.
    MeSH term(s) Antibodies, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic/immunology ; Autoimmune Diseases/blood ; Autoimmune Diseases/immunology ; Eosinophils/immunology ; Humans ; Hypereosinophilic Syndrome/blood ; Hypereosinophilic Syndrome/immunology ; Immunity, Innate ; Th1 Cells/immunology ; Th17 Cells/immunology ; Th2 Cells/immunology
    Chemical Substances Antibodies, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-01-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2088710-3
    ISSN 1473-6322 ; 1528-4050
    ISSN (online) 1473-6322
    ISSN 1528-4050
    DOI 10.1097/ACI.0000000000000614
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  5. Article: Strategies Targeting Type 2 Inflammation: From Monoclonal Antibodies to JAK-Inhibitors.

    Matucci, Andrea / Vivarelli, Emanuele / Nencini, Francesca / Maggi, Enrico / Vultaggio, Alessandra

    Biomedicines

    2021  Volume 9, Issue 10

    Abstract: Bronchial asthma and its frequent comorbidity chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), are characterized by an inflammatory process at lower and upper respiratory tract, with a variability in terms of clinical presentations (phenotypes) and distinct underpin ... ...

    Abstract Bronchial asthma and its frequent comorbidity chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), are characterized by an inflammatory process at lower and upper respiratory tract, with a variability in terms of clinical presentations (phenotypes) and distinct underpin pathophysiological mechanisms (endotypes). Based on the characteristics of inflammation, bronchial asthma can be distinguished into type 2 (eosinophilic) or nontype 2 (noneosinophilic) endotypes. In type 2 asthma endotype, the pathogenic mechanism is sustained by an inflammatory process driven by Th2 cells, type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) and type 2 cytokines, which include interleukin (IL)-4, IL-5, IL-9 and IL-13. The definition of asthma and chronic rhinusinusitis phenotype/endotype is crucial, taking into account the availability of novel biologic agents, such as monoclonal antibodies targeting the classical type 2 cytokines. Recently, new therapeutic strategies have been proposed and analyzed in preliminary clinical trials. Among them Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors, now largely used for the treatment of other chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel diseases, is receiving great relevance. The rationale of this strategy derives from the data that JAK is a tyrosine kinase involved in the signaling of T cell receptor and of several cytokines that play a role in allergic respiratory disease, such as IL-2, IL-4 and IL-9. In this review, we discuss whether treatment with biological agents and JAK inhibitors may be equally effective in controlling type 2 inflammatory process in both asthma and CRS.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-19
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2720867-9
    ISSN 2227-9059
    ISSN 2227-9059
    DOI 10.3390/biomedicines9101497
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  6. Article ; Online: Prevention of Drug Hypersensitivity Reactions: Prescreening and Premedication.

    Thong, Bernard Yu-Hor / Vultaggio, Alessandra / Rerkpattanapipat, Ticha / Schrijvers, Rik

    The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice

    2021  Volume 9, Issue 8, Page(s) 2958–2966

    Abstract: Drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHR) are heterogeneous in their pathomechanisms, clinical presentation, severity, and outcomes. Novel DHR mechanisms, phenotypes, and endotypes have been described. The key to prevention from further exposure to the ... ...

    Abstract Drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHR) are heterogeneous in their pathomechanisms, clinical presentation, severity, and outcomes. Novel DHR mechanisms, phenotypes, and endotypes have been described. The key to prevention from further exposure to the culprit drugs involves correct identification of the putative drug through a combination of in vitro and/or in vivo tests, accurate drug allergy labeling and reporting, and electronic decision support systems within electronic medical records to prevent future accidental prescribing. Prescreening and premedication, the focus of this review, may be a useful adjunct to preventive measures in certain situations. After an index immediate drug hypersensitivity reaction, prescreening may be useful in perioperative anaphylaxis, and iodinated (ICM) and gadolinium-based contrast media (GCM) where the culprit and potential alternative agents are skin tested. In certain nonimmediate DHR, pharmacogenomic prescreening may be used before prescribing high-risk drugs (eg, carbamazepine and allopurinol) where specific human-leukocyte antigen genotypes are associated with severe cutaneous adverse reactions. Premedication with antihistamine and systemic corticosteroids is another therapeutic strategy to prevent infusion reactions for certain biologicals and chemotherapeutic agents, in cases of perioperative anaphylaxis, ICM and GCM DHR, and clonal mast cell disorders. Rapid drug desensitization may also be used to induce temporary tolerance in situations where there are limited alternative drugs.
    MeSH term(s) Allopurinol/therapeutic use ; Contrast Media/adverse effects ; Drug Hypersensitivity/diagnosis ; Drug Hypersensitivity/drug therapy ; Drug Hypersensitivity/prevention & control ; Humans ; Premedication ; Skin Tests ; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
    Chemical Substances Contrast Media ; Allopurinol (63CZ7GJN5I)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-08-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2843237-X
    ISSN 2213-2201 ; 2213-2198
    ISSN (online) 2213-2201
    ISSN 2213-2198
    DOI 10.1016/j.jaip.2021.04.006
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  7. Article ; Online: Rituximab and infliximab desensitization with anti-IgE mAb omalizumab as adjuvant therapy: a case series.

    Perlato, Margherita / Mecheri, Valentina / Accinno, Matteo / Vivarelli, Emanuele / Matucci, Andrea / Vultaggio, Alessandra

    The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice

    2022  Volume 10, Issue 12, Page(s) 3317–3319

    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2843237-X
    ISSN 2213-2201 ; 2213-2198
    ISSN (online) 2213-2201
    ISSN 2213-2198
    DOI 10.1016/j.jaip.2022.08.036
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  8. Article: EGPA Phenotyping: Not Only ANCA, but Also Eosinophils.

    Matucci, Andrea / Vivarelli, Emanuele / Perlato, Margherita / Mecheri, Valentina / Accinno, Matteo / Cosmi, Lorenzo / Parronchi, Paola / Rossi, Oliviero / Vultaggio, Alessandra

    Biomedicines

    2023  Volume 11, Issue 3

    Abstract: Background: Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA) is a small-vessel necrotizing vasculitis. The anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies' (ANCA) role in defining clinical EGPA phenotypes is well established. Although the role of eosinophils ...

    Abstract Background: Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA) is a small-vessel necrotizing vasculitis. The anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies' (ANCA) role in defining clinical EGPA phenotypes is well established. Although the role of eosinophils in disease pathogenesis has been clearly demonstrated, the value of blood eosinophil count (BEC) as a biomarker of disease phenotypes is currently uncertain.
    Methods: We retrospectively analyzed EGPA patients referred to our Immunology Clinic. Demographic, laboratory and clinical features were retrieved from clinical records, and a Logistic Regression was fitted to evaluate the predictive power of all baseline clinical and laboratory features to define EGPA phenotypes.
    Results: 168 patients were recruited. BEC ≤ 1500 cells/mL was predictive of a clinical involvement characterized by asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and lung opacities (OR 0.18, 95% CI 0.07-0.43; respiratory-limited phenotype); BEC > 3500/mL was predictive of extrapulmonary organ involvement (OR 3.5, 95% CI 1.7-7.1; systemic phenotype). BEC was also predictive of peripheral nervous system (PNS) involvement, with a positive trend with increasing BEC (<1500/mL: OR 0.17, 95%CI, 0.06-0.47; >3500/mL: OR 2.8, 95% CI, 1.5-5.28). ANCA positivity was also predictive of extrapulmonary involvement (OR 4.7, 95% CI 1.9-11.99).
    Conclusions: according to BEC and irrespective of the ANCA status, two EGPA phenotypes could be identified, named systemic and respiratory-limited phenotypes, with different organ involvement and possibly different prognoses.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-03
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2720867-9
    ISSN 2227-9059
    ISSN 2227-9059
    DOI 10.3390/biomedicines11030776
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  9. Article ; Online: Eosinophils, the IL-5/IL-5Rα axis, and the biologic effects of benralizumab in severe asthma.

    Matucci, Andrea / Maggi, Enrico / Vultaggio, Alessandra

    Respiratory medicine

    2019  Volume 160, Page(s) 105819

    Abstract: Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized, in a percentage of patients, as an eosinophilic inflammation of the airways. Eosinophils are recognized as a proinflammatory granulocyte playing a major role in the T2-high phenotype, ... ...

    Abstract Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized, in a percentage of patients, as an eosinophilic inflammation of the airways. Eosinophils are recognized as a proinflammatory granulocyte playing a major role in the T2-high phenotype, which includes severe eosinophilic asthma. Eosinophilic asthma represents the majority of the phenotypic variants clinically characterized by severity and frequent exacerbations. For patients with severe uncontrolled asthma, monoclonal antibodies are used as add-on treatments. Among them, in addition to anti-immunoglobulin E therapy, biologic agents directed toward the interleukin (IL)-5/IL-5Rα axis and, thus, interfering with the pathologic functions of eosinophils, are now available. Unlike the other anti‒IL-5 monoclonal antibodies which exert an indirect effect on eosinophils, benralizumab, an afucosylated IgG
    MeSH term(s) Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/therapeutic use ; Asthma/drug therapy ; Asthma/etiology ; Eosinophils ; Humans ; Interleukin-5 ; Interleukin-5 Receptor alpha Subunit ; Molecular Targeted Therapy ; Severity of Illness Index
    Chemical Substances Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized ; IL5RA protein, human ; Interleukin-5 ; Interleukin-5 Receptor alpha Subunit ; benralizumab (71492GE1FX)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-11-11
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1003348-8
    ISSN 1532-3064 ; 0954-6111
    ISSN (online) 1532-3064
    ISSN 0954-6111
    DOI 10.1016/j.rmed.2019.105819
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  10. Article ; Online: Hypersensitivity reactions to biologics used in rheumatology.

    Matucci, Andrea / Nencini, Francesca / Maggi, Enrico / Vultaggio, Alessandra

    Expert review of clinical immunology

    2019  Volume 15, Issue 12, Page(s) 1263–1271

    Abstract: ... ...

    Abstract Introduction
    MeSH term(s) Antirheumatic Agents/adverse effects ; Antirheumatic Agents/therapeutic use ; B-Lymphocytes/immunology ; B-Lymphocytes/pathology ; Biological Products/adverse effects ; Biological Products/therapeutic use ; Drug Hypersensitivity/immunology ; Drug Hypersensitivity/pathology ; Humans ; Rheumatic Diseases/drug therapy ; Rheumatic Diseases/immunology ; Rheumatic Diseases/pathology ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; T-Lymphocytes/pathology
    Chemical Substances Antirheumatic Agents ; Biological Products
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-10-30
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review ; Video-Audio Media
    ZDB-ID 2274260-8
    ISSN 1744-8409 ; 1744-666X
    ISSN (online) 1744-8409
    ISSN 1744-666X
    DOI 10.1080/1744666X.2020.1684264
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