Phenotyping the Responses to Systemic Corticosteroids in the Management of Asthma Attacks (PRISMA) : protocol for an observational and translational pilot study

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INTRODUCTION: Asthma and its associated exacerbation are heterogeneous. Although severe asthma attacks are systematically prescribed corticosteroids and often antibiotics, little is known about the variability of response to these therapies. Blood eosinophils and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) are type 2 inflammation biomarkers that have established mechanistic, prognostic and theragnostic values in chronic asthma, but their utility in acute asthma is unclear. We speculate that the clinical and biological response to those treatments varies according to inflammometry and microbiological test results.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS: An observational longitudinal pilot study with multimodal clinical and translational assessments will be performed on 50 physician-diagnosed ≥12-year-old asthmatics presenting with an asthma attack and 12 healthy controls, including blood eosinophil count (venous and point-of-care (POC) capillary blood), FeNO and testing for airway infection (sputum cultures and POC nasopharyngeal swabs). People with asthma will be assessed on day 0 and after a 7-day corticosteroid course, with home monitoring performed in between. The primary analysis will be the change in the forced expiratory volume in 1 s according to type 2 inflammatory status (blood eosinophils ≥0.15×109/L and/or FeNO ≥25 ppb) after treatment. Key secondary analyses will compare changes in symptom scores and the proportion of patients achieving a minimal clinically important difference. Exploratory analyses will assess the relationship between clinical, lung function, inflammatory and microbiome parameters; satisfaction plus reliability indices of POC tests; and sex-gender variability in treatment response. Ultimately, this pilot study will serve to plan a larger trial comparing the clinical and biological response to systemic corticosteroids according to inflammatory biomarkers, offering valuable guidance for more personalised therapeutic strategies in asthma attacks.

ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The protocol has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (#2023-4687). Results will be communicated in an international meeting and submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.

TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ClinicalTrials.gov Registry (NCT05870215).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

BMJ open respiratory research - 10(2023), 1 vom: 08. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Celis-Preciado, Carlos Andrés [VerfasserIn]
Leclerc, Simon [VerfasserIn]
Duval, Martine [VerfasserIn]
Cliche, Dominic O [VerfasserIn]
Larivée, Pierre [VerfasserIn]
Lemaire-Paquette, Samuel [VerfasserIn]
Lévesque, Simon [VerfasserIn]
Côté, Andréanne [VerfasserIn]
Lachapelle, Philippe [VerfasserIn]
Couillard, Simon [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

31C4KY9ESH
Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Allergic lung disease
Asthma
Asthma Mechanisms
Biomarkers
Cytokine Biology
Exhaled Airway Markers
Inflammation
Journal Article
Nitric Oxide
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Respiratory Function Test
Viral infection

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Date Completed 10.11.2023

Date Revised 13.11.2023

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05870215

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/bmjresp-2023-001932

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364320974