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Expert insights: CSU treatment advances

Published:21st Jul 2025

Gülseren Tuncay outlines recent advances in CSU treatment, explaining how newly approved and emerging treatments may change disease management approaches and drug selection. View transcript.

Gülseren Tuncay, MD

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Yeah, because of these new drugs, presenting as new drugs, once these medications are included in reimbursement schemes, it's likely that omalizumab will continue to be maybe used initially, or as a second line treatment, given that newer drugs are still relatively recent.

However, as real world data emerge, dupilumab may be considered as an alternative, especially in patients with atopic diseases who do not achieve adequate control with omalizumab maybe. And remibrutinib, which has demonstrated clear efficacy, particularly in angioedema patients.

So it may become more prominent, especially wheals plus angioedema phenotype because CSU patients, most of them have this phenotype. And then moreover, the fact that remibrutinib is available, an oral tablet may improve patient adherence, making it a more attractive option in clinical practise. And for patients on high dose omalizumab, I believe that the dupilumab and remibrutinib could be more comfortable as alternative in cases where patients do not respond to a standard dose when we want to up dose omalizumab, it can be considered maybe against or switching to dupilumab or remibrutinib could help avoid additional injections and improve patient's compliance. And therefore, I expect these alternatives will become more widely used in such scenarios.
Gülseren Tuncay, MD

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