Asthma Allergy Immunology

Asthma Allergy Immunology

2024, Vol 22, Num, 3     (Pages: 339-350)

Turkish Severe Asthma Program (TSAP)

Sevim BAVBEK 1, Ozge SOYER 2, Ayse BACCIOGLU 3, Demet CAN 4, Zeynep CELEBI SOZENER 1, Emine DIBEK MISIRLIOGLU 5, Ayse Fusun KALPAKLIOGLU 3, Melike OCAK 2, Murat TURK 6, Zeynep SENGUL EMEKSIZ 5, Insu YILMAZ 6, Dilsad MUNGAN 1,

1 Division of Immunology and Allergy, Department of Chest Diseases, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye
2 Division of Allergy, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye
3 Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Chest Diseases, Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale, Türkiye
4 Division of Allergy, Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Behcet Uz Pediatric Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Türkiye
5 Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Türkiye
6 Division of Immunology and Allergy, Department of Chest Diseases, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Türkiye

DOI: 10.21911/aai.2024.679
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Severe asthma (SA) is defined as asthma that is uncontrolled under high-dose ICS+LABA treatment or can only be controlled with this high-dose treatment, with a differential diagnosis from difficult asthma. It has been known that severe asthmatics with poor symptom control were reported as 3.7% (range between 3.6-6.1%). Although SA constitutes a very small proportion of all asthmatics, it causes a significant social and psychological burden on patients and on social reimbursement systems. The Turkish Severe Asthma Program (TSAP) was established by stakeholders that include the Turkish National Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (TNSACI), representatives from national severe asthma centers, and those from the pharmaceutical industry to develop standards to diagnose and treat patients with SA and to monitor their treatments at the national level. Here we present the TSAP organization and vision.

Keywords : Asthma, severe asthma, national data, TNSACI, TSAP