Hatice Tayar

Dr. Hatice Tayar

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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

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10 November 2023 in Die Radiologie
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SESinan Erdemi
Sinan Erdemi
ŞOŞükrü Oğuz
Şükrü Oğuz
CACEMAL AYDOGAN
CEMAL AYDOGAN
OBOnur Bektaş
Onur Bektaş
ATAykut Teymur
Aykut Teymur
HTHatice Tayar
Hatice Tayar

17 August 2026 in Journal of Clinical Medicine
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MEMüge Erbay
Müge Erbay
SASelcuk Akkaya
Selcuk Akkaya
FÖFunda Öztuna
Funda Öztuna
HTHatice Tayar
Hatice Tayar
Background/Objectives: Tissue-level markers of treatment response are lacking in severe asthma. Transthoracic ultrasound (TUS) non-invasively detects pleural-line and subpleural abnormalities that have been linked to small-airway disease, but it has not been evaluated as a marker of response to biologic therapy. The primary objective was to determine whether mean pleural-line thickness in the right and left hemithoraces changed between baseline and week 16 of biologic therapy. The secondary objectives were to describe the accompanying changes in pleural-line regularity, lung function, symptom control, and quality of life, and to examine whether the ultrasound changes are related to the clinical and functional response. Methods: In this prospective, single-center study, 41 adults with severe asthma who were starting omalizumab (n = 18), mepolizumab (n = 12), or benralizumab (n = 11) underwent standardized 14-zone TUS, spirometry, the Asthma Control Test (ACT), and the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) at baseline and after 16 weeks. Pleural-line thickness and pleural-line regularity score were the primary TUS measures. Paired and between-group tests and Spearman rank correlations were used. Results: At week 16, 20 patients (48.8%) were complete responders. The mean ACT score increased from 13.2 ± 4.1 to 22.6 ± 2.9, the mean AQLQ total score from 3.6 ± 1.2 to 4.9 ± 1.2, FEV1 from 86.0 ± 24.8% to 99.0 ± 20.9% predicted, and FEF25–75 from 61.4 ± 35.0% to 81.2 ± 33.4% predicted (all p ≤ 0.001), whereas the blood eosinophil count fell from a median of 400 (0–1990) to 80 (0–330) cells/µL (p < 0.001). Median pleural-line thickness decreased from 1.27 to 0.94 mm in the right hemithorax and from 1.31 to 0.97 mm in the left hemithorax (both p < 0.001), and the pleural-line regularity score increased on both sides (both p < 0.001). Pleural-line thickness decreased significantly in all three biologic groups (all p ≤ 0.001), with no evidence of a differential treatment effect. Changes in pleural-line thickness did not correlate with ΔACT, ΔAQLQ, ΔFEV1, or ΔFEF25–75 (all p > 0.05). Conclusions: After 16 weeks of biologic therapy, pleural-line thickness was reduced and the pleural-line regularity score had improved on TUS. Because these pleural changes did not correlate with the symptomatic or spirometric response, TUS may capture a complementary, tissue-level dimension of the treatment effect. As the study was an uncontrolled single-arm design, the changes cannot be attributed to the biologic agent itself, and prospective controlled validation is required before TUS can be proposed as a marker of response.