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Tanya M Laidlaw1, Andrew A White2
1Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Abstract:
There has been a paradigm shift in the management of aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD). It started in 2015 when the first biologic was Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for severe eosinophilic asthma. Thus, there emerged a new era in the treatment of patients with type 2-mediated airway diseases. This has led to an increasing number of options for patients, undoubtably a great thing, but has left clinicians without a clear answer for how to balance the therapies that exist for AERD, what to recommend for treatment, and how to best assess the benefits and risks of each therapy. This paper aims to explore these benefits and risks, and to provide a roadmap for future studies.
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