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Long-term preventive effects of allergen specific immunotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Azevedo L; Cardoso P; Coelho J; Gonçalves A; Maranhas M; Oliveira A; Pereira E; Pereira J; Silva V; Teixeira C; [email protected]. Regente da disciplina: Prof Dr. Altamiro da Costa - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Subject: Introdução à Medicina
Long-term preventive effects of allergen specific
immunotherapy: a systematic review and
meta-analysis
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Subject: Introdução à Medicina
Regente da disciplina: Prof Dr. Altamiro da Costa
Orientador: Dr. João Fonseca
Azevedo L; Cardoso P; Coelho J; Gonçalves A; Maranhas M; Oliveira A;
Pereira E; Pereira J; Silva V; Teixeira C; [email protected]
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SUMMARY•Introduction
•Objectives
•Participants and methods
> Criteria Selection
> Search Strategy
•Results
> Identification and selection of the literature
> Description of the included articles
> Methodological quality assessment
> Data extraction and analysis
•Preliminary Discussion
•References
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INTRODUCTION
• “Allergic diseases and asthma “have increased dramatically during the past 2 decades”2
• Today these diseases are very frequent; 2.7 million children in the United States suffer from asthma and over a hundred million people suffer from asthma, allergy and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Europe.3
2. TePas EC, Umetsu DT. Immunotherapy of asthma and allergic diseases. California (USA): Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University; 2000 Dec; 12(6):574-8.
3. Chin ES. Pediatrics, Reactive Airway Disease. Slapper D, Windle ML, Young GM, Halamka J, Bachur RG, editors. EMedicine from WebMD. 2006 Nov.
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There is a chance that immunotherapy can prevent the evolution from rhinitis to asthma and the appearance of new sensitivities
•There is no systematic review proving its long-
term efficacy on the prevention of new sensitivities
and the evolution from rhinitis to asthma.
HOWEVER…
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SIT group
Control group
Progression from rhinitis to asthma?
New allergic sensitivities?
End ofthe
intervention
During the study Follow -up
Patients with allergic diseases
- Decrease symptoms;- Decrease medication.
End ofFollow-up
Figure 1 – Graphic contextualising the problem of this systematic review.
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OBJECTIVES
Search if allergen specific immunotherapy has long-term
preventive effects after the treatment ceases
Development of new sensitivities The evolution from rhinitis to asthma
This has motivated us to make a systematic review, to investigate the veracity
of this hypothesis
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To search PUBMED DATABASE
•Query:("Immunotherapy"[MeSH Terms] OR "Immunotherapy"[All Fields] OR ("desensitization, immunologic"[MeSH Terms] OR "desensitization"[All Fields]) AND (("asthma"[MeSH Terms] OR "asthm*"[All Fields]) AND ("rhinitis"[MeSH Terms] AND "rhinitis"[All Fields]) OR ("airway diseases"[All Fields])) AND sensitive clinical query from PUBMED
Search strategy
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Search strategy
• We also searched the references of the included studies and
consult the review articles that already exist about the subject. 7, 9,13
Furthermore …
7. Cox L, Cohn JR. Duration of allergen immunotherapy in respiratory allergy: when is enough, enough?. Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology: official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. 2007 May; 98(5):416-26.
9. Passalacqua G, Durham SR. Allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma update: allergen immunotherapy. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immnunoly. 2007 Apr;119(4):881-91.
13. Calamita Z, Saconato H, Pela AB, Atallah AN. Efficacy of sublingual immunotherapy in asthma: systematic review of randomized-clinical trials using the Cochrane Collaboration method. Allergy. 2006 Oct;61(10):1162-72.
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PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS
Article criteria selection
Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria
• Articles which refer to patients with allergic rhinitis or asthma treated with SIT; • Studies with, at least, one year of follow-up after the treatment ceases;
• Articles reporting original data on the effects of immunotherapy on the: - progression from rhinitis to asthma ;- appearance of new allergic sensitivities;
• Controlled studies.
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Exclusion criteria
• Studies without a rigorous definition about the existence or not of asthma in the patients, at the beginning of the treatment;
• Studies that combine SIT with other types of treatment or medication;
• Studies in other language than the English.
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RESULTS
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Identification and selection of the literature
10 reports excluded- 9 without one year, at least, of follow-up- 1 not relative to patients suffering from asthma and/or rhinitis
14 electronically screened for detailed
evaluation
392 excluded based on title/abstract
125 excluded - review articles
531 references identified electronically
4 reports included 3 articles included after consulting the references of review papers on this subject
7 studies included on the systematic review
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The articles were analyzed according to:
• Study identification: author, year, country
• Type of study;
• Study’s objective;
• Participants: number, age (children or adults), sex, health condition
• Interventions: use of SLIT or SCIT, type of allergen administrated
• Variables analysed: progression from rhinitis to asthma in patients treated
with SIT and in group control, severity of the symptoms (if developed),
development of new sensitivities in both patient groups, type of sensitivity
developed (if developed), behaviour’s differences in both groups;
Description of the included articles
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• Type of treatment;
• Treatment duration;
• Follow-up duration;
• Control or placebo group;
• Time: seasonal, not-seasonal, co-seasonal;
• Results: development or not of asthma’s symptoms in patients with
rhinitis that didn’t have asthma at the beginning of the study; appearance
or not of new allergic sensitivities; development of other kinds of
symptoms.
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The participants of the included studies weren’t completely equals
4 studies > participants were children
3 Studies > participants were adults
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In two of them (L. Jacobsen et al. and B. Niggmenn, et al.)
Participants at the beginning suffered from rhinoconjunctivitis
In other four
Participants initially had rhinitis and/or asthma
Eng PA, et al 2002 study
Participants suffered from a sensitivity to grass pollen with or without tree pollen
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Type of treatment administrated:
L. Jacobsen et al. and B. Niggmenn,
et al.
Di Rienzo V, et al Three studies
P. A. Enget al. 2002
SCIT:- Phleum pratense and Betula verrucosa
SLIT SCIT : - grass pollen allergen extracts
Didn’t specify the type of
SIT administrated.
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Period of treatment duration:
3 - 5 years
Period of follow – up:
It ranged from 3 to 12 years
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Methodological quality assessment
Delphi list
D1 Was a method of randomization performed?
D2 Was the treatment allocation concealed?
D3 Were the groups similar at baseline regarding the most important prognostic indicators?
D4 Were both inclusion and exclusion criteria specified?
D5 Was the outcome assessor blinded?
D6 Was the care provider blinded?
D7 Was the patient blinded?
D8 Were point estimates and measures of variability presented for the primary outcome measures?
D9 Did the analysis include an intention-to-treat analysis?
D10 Was the withdrawal/drop-out rate <20% of the total study population?
D11 Was the withdrawal/drop-out rate unlikely to cause bias?
Table 1 – Items of the Delphi-list for the assessment of the methodological quality of the articles.
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Article D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10 D11 Total Delphi*L. Jacobsen, et al.2007 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 5
B. Niggemann, et al.2006 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 5Pajno GB, et al.2001 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6Di Rienzo V, et al.2003 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 5Eng, PA, et al. 2006 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 5Eng, PA, et al. 2002 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 5Durham SR., et al.1999 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4
* Total Delphi (range 0-11): total score >/= 6 = high quality; <6 = low quality
* Total Delphi (range 0-11): total score >/= 6 = high quality; <6 = low quality
Table 2 - Results of the methodological quality assessment.
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Data extraction and analysis
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SENSITIVITIES
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Data extraction and analysis
Pajno GB, et al. 2002
• 75.4% of the children in SIT group didn’t show any sensitization • 33.3% in control group• (p < 0.0002)
Eng PA, et al. 2002
• 61% (8 out of 13) of the SIT patients developed a new sensitivity• 100% (10 out of 10) in control group
Eng PA, et al. 2006• the prevalence of sensitizations was: - 90% in the control group
- 67% in the SIT group
In comparison to a previous observation that has been made six years before none of the patients (control or SIT group) have developed new sensitizations in this period
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Data extraction and analysis
Stephen R. Durham, et al.
• decrease of late skin response to an allergen after the discontinuation of SIT >> No numbers or percentages
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0%0%Eng PA, et al. 2006
100%61%Eng PA, et al. 2002
67%25%Pajno GB, et al. 2002
Control GroupSIT GroupStudy
Table 3 - Results obtained by the included studies on the development of new sensitivities.
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Data extraction and analysis
Figure 2 - Graphic of the results obtained by the included studies on the development of new sensitivities.
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Data extraction and analysis
DEVELOPMENT OF ASTHMA SYMPTONS
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Data extraction and analysis
Di Rienzo V, et al.
• 91% of the patients of SLIT group didn’t develop asthma• 4% in the control group• Increase of the number of patients with multiple sensitizations in SLIT group, in comparison with the control group.
L. Jacobsen, et al.
• 25% (16 out of 64) patients in SIT group developed asthma symptons• 45% (24 out of 53) in control group
B. Niggemann, et al.
• 20% (15 out of 75) of the patients in SIT group evoluted from rhinitis to asthma• 43% (29 out of 87) in control group
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Table 4 - Results obtained by the included studies on the progression from rhinitis to asthma.
43%20%B. Niggemann, et al. 2006
45%25%L. Jacobsen, et al. 200796%9%Di Rienzo V, et al. 2003
Control GroupSIT GroupStudy
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Data extraction and analysis
Figure 3 - Graphic of the results obtained by the included studies on the progression from rhinitis to asthma.
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Data extraction and analysis
DEVELOPMENT OF ASTHMA SYMPTONSDEVELOPMENT OF NEW SENSITIVITIES
2 trials: SIT is preventive
3 trials: SIT is preventive
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META – ANALYSIS:
Figure 4 - Meta-analysis of development of asthma symptoms (all included studies on this subject): odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) for each study and all studies combined (include test for heterogeneity).
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META – ANALYSIS:
Figure 5 - Meta-analysis of development of asthma symptoms: odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) for each study and all studies combined (include test for heterogeneity).
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META – ANALYSIS:
Figure 6 - Meta-analysis of development of new sensitivities: odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) for each study and all studies combined (include test for heterogeneity).
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Allergen specific immunotherapy
reduces
Symptoms of allergies
Stop the progression from
rhinitis to asthma
Decrease the development of
new sensitivities long after the
treatment finished
PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION
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REFERENCES
1. Abramson MJ, Puy RM, Weiner JM. Allergen immunotherapy for asthma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2003; (4):CD001186. 2. TePas EC, Umetsu DT. Immunotherapy of asthma and allergic diseases. Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 2000 Dec; 12(6):574-8. 3. Chin ES. Pediatrics, Reactive Airway Disease. Slapper D, Windle ML, Young GM, Halamka J, Bachur RG, editors. EMedicine from WebMD. 2006 Nov. 4. James T. Li, MD, PhD; Richard F. Lockey, MD; I. Leonard Bernstein, MD;Jay M. Portnoy, MD; and Richard A. Nicklas, MD, editors. Allergen immunotherapy: a practice parameter. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology. 2003 Jan; 90(1):13-4.
5. O’Hehir RE, Sandrini A, Anderson GP, Rolland MJ. Sublingual allergen immunotherapy:immunological mechanisms and prospects for refined vaccine preparation. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 2007;14(21):2235-44. 6. Greenberger PA, Ballow M, Casale TB, Platts-Mills TA, Sampson HA. Sublingual immunotherapy and subcutaneous immunotherapy: Issues in the United States. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immnunoly. 2007 Oct 12; In Press, Corrected Proof.
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REFERENCES
7. Cox L, Cohn JR. Duration of allergen immunotherapy in respiratory allergy: when is enough, enough?. Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology: official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. 2007 May; 98(5):416-26. 8. Malling HJ. Allergen-specific immune therapy in the treatment of asthma. Ugeskrift for Laeger. 2000 Jan 24; 162(4):477-9. 9. Passalacqua G, Durham SR. Allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma update: allergen immunotherapy. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immnunoly. 2007 Apr;119(4):881-91. 10. Jacobsen L, Nuchel Petersen B, Wihl JAÊ , et al. Immunotherapy with partially purified and standardized tree pollen extracts. IV: Results from long-term (6-year) follow-up. Allergy. 1997; 52:914±920. 11. Johnstone DE, Dutton A. The value of hyposensitization therapy for bronchial asthma in children: a 14-year study. Pediatrics. 1968; 42:793±802.
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REFERENCES
12. Des Roches A, Paradis L, Menardo JL, et al. Immunotherapy with a standardized Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus extract. VI: Specific immunotherapy prevents the onset of new sensitizations in children. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immnunoly. 1997; 99:450±453. 13. Calamita Z, Saconato H, Pela AB, Atallah AN. Efficacy of sublingualimmunotherapy in asthma: systematic review of randomized-clinical trialsusing the Cochrane Collaboration method. Allergy. 2006 Oct;61(10):1162-72.