Mepolizumab reduced the need for maintenance oral corticosteroids and systemic corticosteroid bursts among patients with severe asthma, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.
The monoclonal antibody also was well tolerated by patients as it provided disease control, Charles Pilette, MD, professor with the department of pulmonary medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium, and colleagues wrote in the study.
The REALITI-A prospective, observational cohort study involved 84 centers across Europe and North America and