Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16543541›Full record

ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2006

Treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy with methotrexate.

D Fialho, Y-C Chan, D C Allen, M M Reilly, R A C Hughes

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Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Progress in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for CIDP.International journal of medical sciences · 2020
    Review
  4. Immune-mediated neuropathies.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2018
    Review
  5. Treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2015
    Review
  6. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.Current treatment options in neurology · 2013
    Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated neuropathies.Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders · 2009
    Article
  10. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

D FialhoDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London School of Medicine, UK. doreen@doctors.org.uk
Y-C Chan
D C Allen
M M Reilly
R A C Hughes
King's College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We discovered many reports of other immunosuppressive drugs being used in adults with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) but none of methotrexate. As weekly low dose oral methotrexate is safe, effective, and well tolerated in other diseases, we treated 10 patients with otherwise treatment resistant CIDP. Seven showed improvement in strength by at least two points on the MRC sum score and three worsened. Only two showed an improvement in disability and both were also receiving corticosteroids. We discuss the difficulty of detecting an improvement in treatment resistant CIDP and propose methotrexate as a suitable agent for testing in a randomised trial.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAntimetabolites, AntineoplasticDisability EvaluationFemaleHumansMaleMethotrexateMiddle AgedPolyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory DemyelinatingRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeAntimetabolites, AntineoplasticMethotrexate

Identifiers

PMID16543541
PMCPMC2077507
OpenAlexW2154204015

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