Approaches to the treatment of hypereosinophilic syndromes: a workshop summary report

Klion, Amy D; Bochner, Bruce S; Gleich, Gerald J; Nutman, Thomas B; Rothenberg, Marc E; Simon, Hans-Uwe; Wechsler, Michael E; Weller, Peter F; The Hypereosinophilic Syndromes Working Group, (2006). Approaches to the treatment of hypereosinophilic syndromes: a workshop summary report. Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 117(6), pp. 1292-302. St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby 10.1016/j.jaci.2006.02.042

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Hypereosinophilic syndromes are a heterogeneous group of uncommon disorders characterized by the presence of marked peripheral blood eosinophilia, tissue eosinophilia, or both, resulting in a wide variety of clinical manifestations. Although corticosteroids are the first-line therapy for many of these disorders, approaches to the treatment of patients who do not tolerate or are unresponsive to corticosteroids are poorly standardized. A multidisciplinary group of 37 clinicians and scientists participated in a workshop held in May 2005 in Bern, Switzerland to discuss current and future approaches to therapy for 3 eosinophil-mediated disorders: hypereosinophilic syndrome, Churg-Strauss syndrome, and eosinophil-associated gastrointestinal disease. The goal of the workshop was to summarize available data regarding treatment of these disorders to identify the most promising therapies and approaches for further study. There was consensus among all of the participants that the identification of markers of disease progression to assess treatment responses is a research priority for all 3 disorders. Furthermore, the need for newer therapeutic strategies and novel drugs, as well as multicenter trials to assess all treatment modalities, was emphasized.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Pharmacology
UniBE Contributor:	Simon, Hans-Uwe
ISSN:	0091-6749
ISBN:	16750989
Publisher:	Mosby
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:45
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:14
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.jaci.2006.02.042
PubMed ID:	16750989
Web of Science ID:	000238332300014
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/18763 (FactScience: 1001)