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Letter to the editor
Mepolizumab for severe eosinophilic asthma – A one-year real life Portuguese study
R Brás1,
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ritasabras@gmail.com

Corresponding author at: Immunoallergology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria – Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal.
, M Paulino1, C Varandas, C Coutinho, MI Silva, R Limão, C Costa, E Alonso, E Pedro, A Mendes
Immunoallergology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal
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database&#46; A written informed consent was obtained&#46; BEC&#44; Forced Expiratory Volume in one second &#40;FEV1&#41;&#44; exacerbation rate and oral corticosteroid &#40;OCS&#41; intake&#44; as well as patient-reported outcomes &#40;PROs&#41; Asthma Control Test &#40;ACT&#41;&#44; Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test &#40;CARAT&#41; and Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire &#40;Mini-AQLQ&#41; were accessed&#46; Adverse events were documented&#46; For statistical analyses &#40;IBM-SPSS software&#44; v25&#46;0&#41;&#44; t-independent and Mann-Whitney tests were used to compare parametric and non-parametric independent samples&#44; respectively&#44; while paired-t and Wilcoxon tests were employed to evaluate differences between intervals within the same variable&#44; as appropriate&#46; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span>-values &#60;0&#46;05 were considered statistically significant&#46;</p><p id="para0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A total of 20 patients were enrolled in the study&#44; mean age 54&#46;0&#8239;&#177;&#8239;17&#46;0&#160;years &#91;16&#8211;77&#160;years&#93;&#44; 13 were female &#40;65&#37;&#41;&#46; Asthma diagnosis had been made&#44; on average&#44; 20 years before and severe asthma 10 years before&#46; Mean BMI was 27&#46;3&#8239;&#177;&#8239;5&#46;4&#160;Kg&#47;m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span> &#91;19&#46;5&#8211;38&#46;3&#160;Kg&#47;m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span>&#93;&#44; with six patients &#40;30&#37;&#41; obese &#40;BMI&#8805;30&#160;Kg&#47;m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span>&#41;&#46; Total serum IgE &#40;median 274&#160;kU&#47;L&#44; IQR 417&#46;5&#160;kU&#47;L&#41; was &#8805;100&#160;kU&#47;L in 16 patients &#40;80&#37;&#41;&#44; with 10 patients &#40;50&#37;&#41; showing positive skin prick testing &#40;SPT&#41;&#46; Rhinitis &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span>&#8239;&#61;&#8239;15&#44; 75&#37;&#41;&#44; rhinosinusitis &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span>&#8239;&#61;&#8239;8&#44; 40&#37;&#41; and nasal polyposis &#40;NP&#41; &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span>&#8239;&#61;&#8239;8&#44; 40&#37;&#41; were the most common comorbidities &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0001">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0001"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="para0006" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Regarding mepolizumab&#39;s efficacy &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0001">Fig&#46; 1</a>A&#41;&#44; BEC significantly decreased from a mean of 753&#46;2&#8239;&#177;&#8239;429&#47;mm<span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span> to 101&#46;7&#8239;&#177;&#8239;102&#47;mm<span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span> &#40;&#8722;86&#46;5&#37;&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#60;&#160;0&#46;001&#41;&#44; as well as annual exacerbation rate &#40;mean reduction 2&#46;5&#47;year&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#60;&#160;0&#46;001&#41; and daily OCS intake with only two patients remaining under OCS after 12 months of mepolizumab &#40;prednisolone 5&#8239;mg at alternate days&#44; mean reduction 9&#46;17&#8239;mg&#47;day&#41;&#46; There were no hospitalizations&#46; Considering FEV1&#44; only a slight improvement was observed &#40;mean baseline of 2&#46;1&#8239;&#177;&#8239;0&#46;9&#8239;L to 2&#46;2&#8239;&#177;&#8239;0&#46;8&#8239;L&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#62;&#160;0&#46;05&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0001"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="para0007" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Concerning PROs &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0001">Fig&#46; 1</a>A&#41;&#44; statistically significant changes were observed in ACT &#40;mean &#8710;-ACT 5&#46;4 points&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#60;&#160;0&#46;001&#41;&#44; with 16 patients &#40;80&#37;&#41; presenting &#8805;20 points after 12 months of treatment&#44; and mini-AQLQ &#40;mean &#8710;-mini-AQLQ 1&#46;3 points&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span> 0&#46;02&#41;&#44; while CARAT improvement did not reach statistical significance&#46; Worth noting&#44; 12-month mean upper airways score was lower compared with mean lower airways score &#40;6&#47;12&#8239;vs 12&#47;18 points&#41;&#46; NP was not monitored&#44; although we did not find significant differences in ACT or exacerbations in these patients &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#62;&#160;0&#46;05&#41;&#46;</p><p id="para0008" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A sub-analysis was attempted comparing changes in BEC&#44; ACT and exacerbation rate after 12 months of treatment in patients with baseline BEC&#8805;500&#47;mm<span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span> vs &#60;500&#47;mm<span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span>&#44; BMI&#8805;30&#160;Kg&#47;m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span> vs &#60;30&#160;Kg&#47;m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span>&#44; positive vs negative SPT&#44; total serum IgE&#8805;100&#160;kU&#47;L vs &#60;100&#160;kU&#47;L &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0001">Fig&#46; 1</a>B&#41;&#46; There was a statistically significant difference &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#60;&#160;0&#46;05&#41; between the groups of BEC&#8805;500&#47;mm<span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span> vs &#60;500&#47;mm<span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span> regarding changes in ACT&#46;</p><p id="para0009" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Mepolizumab was well tolerated&#46; Adverse events reported included myalgias in three patients&#44; reverted with administration of magnesium&#44; and persistent abdominal pain in one patient whose biological therapy was switched to another anti-IL-5&#46;</p><p id="para0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our study confirms mepolizumab&#39;s efficacy and safety&#44; being the first study in a Portuguese cohort with severe eosinophilic asthma&#46; These effects were similar in allergic and non-allergic patients&#44; irrespective of total IgE serum concentrations&#46; Patients with higher baseline BEC reported better symptom control&#44; although annual exacerbation rate did not differ significantly&#46;</p><p id="para0011" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We report a 76&#37; improvement in annual exacerbation rate and a 92&#37; reduction in daily OCS intake&#44; which is higher than the reports of MENSA and SIRIUS clinical trials&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0001"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0002"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> but in line with other real-life studies&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0003"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#8211;5</span></a> Similarly&#44; a significant improvement in ACT score was documented&#44; reaching not only statistical but clinical significance with &#8710;-ACT &#8805;3 points and 80&#37; of patients adequately controlled &#40;ACT&#8805;20&#41;&#44; as well as in quality of life&#46; CARAT score did not reach statistical significance probably due to a less expressive improvement in nasal symptoms&#46;</p><p id="para0012" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Despite real-life studies<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0003"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0006"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> generally showing better results in FEV1 changes&#44; ours failed to show significant improvement&#44; probably due to the lack of reversibility in some patients&#46; On the other hand&#44; mepolizumab significantly reduced BEC in our cohort&#44; suggesting a decrease in inflammation&#44; with better results in patients with higher baseline values&#46; However&#44; larger real-life studies did not find statistically significant results&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0003"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0006"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0007"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a></p><p id="para0013" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Regarding positivity in SPT or baseline total IgE&#44; our results are in line with others previously reported&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0006"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> suggesting mepolizumab is effective in both allergic and non-allergic patients&#46; 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