Advice
Following a second re-submission.
Omalizumab (Xolair®) is accepted for restricted use within NHS Scotland as add-on therapy to improve asthma control in adult and adolescent patients (12 years of age and above) with severe persistent allergic asthma. It is restricted to initiation and monitoring by hospital physicians experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of severe persistent asthma.
It is restricted to patients who are prescribed chronic systemic steroids and in whom all other treatments have failed. The response to omalizumab treatment should be assessed in all patients at 16 weeks and treatment should be discontinued in patients who have not shown a marked improvement in overall asthma control.
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Medicine details
- Medicine name:
- omalizumab 150mg powder and solvent for injection (Xolair)
- SMC ID:
- 259/06
- Indication:
- Asthma
- Pharmaceutical company
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd
- BNF chapter
- Respiratory system
- Submission type
- Resubmission
- Status
- Superseded
- Date advice published
- 08 October 2007