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Editorial
. 2017 Apr 10:15:9.
doi: 10.1186/s12948-017-0065-4. eCollection 2017.

SANI-Severe Asthma Network in Italy: a way forward to monitor severe asthma

G Senna  1 , M Guerriero  2 , P L Paggiaro  3 , F Blasi  4 , M Caminati  1 , E Heffler  5 , M Latorre  3 , G W Canonica  6   7 ; SANI
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Editorial

SANI-Severe Asthma Network in Italy: a way forward to monitor severe asthma

G Senna et al. Clin Mol Allergy. .

Abstract

Even if severe asthma (SA) accounts for 5-10% of all cases of the disease, it is currently a crucial unmet need, owing its difficult clinical management and its high social costs. For this reason several networks, focused on SA have been organized in some countries, in order to select these patients, to recognize their clinical features, to evaluate their adherence, to classify their biological/clinical phenotypes, to identify their eligibility to the new biologic therapies and to quantify the costs of the disease. Aim of the present paper is to describe the ongoing Italian Severe Asthma Network (SANI). Up today 49 centres have been selected, widespread on the national territory. Sharing the same diagnostic protocol, data regarding patients with SA will be collected and processed in a web platform. After their recruitment, SA patients will be followed in the long term in order to investigate the natural history of the disease. Besides clinical data, the cost/benefit evaluation of the new biologics will be verified as well as the search of peculiar biomarker(s) of the disease.

Keywords: Adherence; Biologics; Network; Registry; Severe asthma.

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Geographic distribution of Referral Centers currently involved in SANI project
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