Characteristics and treatment regimens across ERS SHARP severe asthma registries

Little is known about the characteristics and treatments of patients with severe asthma across Europe, but both are likely to vary. This is the first study in the European Respiratory Society Severe Heterogeneous Asthma Research collaboration, Patient-centred (SHARP) Clinical Research Collaboration and it is designed to explore these variations. Therefore, we aimed to compare characteristics of patients in European severe asthma registries and treatments before starting biologicals.This was a cross-sectional retrospective analysis of aggregated data from 11 national severe asthma registries that joined SHARP with established patient databases.Analysis of data from 3236 patients showed many …

Higher blood eosinophil levels after omalizumab treatment may be associated with poorer asthma outcomes

Corrigendum to “Healthcare costs of the SATisfaction and adherence to COPD treatment (SAT) study follow-up” (Respiratory Medicine (2019) 153 (68–75), (S0954611119301763), (10.1016/j.rmed.2019.05.017))

The authors regret that the affiliations of two authors were incorrectly reported. The right affiliation of Fabiano di Marco is: “Department of Health Science, University of Milan, Respiratory Unit, Pope John XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy”; the right affiliation of Pierachille Santus is: “Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (DIBIC), University of Milan, Milan, Italy”. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

COVID-19 in Severe Asthma Network in Italy (SANI) patients: Clinical features, impact of comorbidities and treatments

To the Editor Since the end of February 2020 Italy, first non- Asian Country, has reported an ever increasing number of COronaVIrus Disease 19 (COVID-19) patients, which has reached over 200,000 confirmed Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected subjects and resulted in more than 34000 deaths (data updated to June 19th, 20201).Patients with asthma are potentially more severely affected by by SARS-CoV-2 infection 2 and it is well established that respiratory viral infections are associated with severe adverse outcomes in patients with asthma, including increased risk of asthma exacerbation episodes 3. Nonetheless, according to the epidemiological studies publishe…