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ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2007

Therapeutic potential of erythropoietin in cardiovascular disease: erythropoiesis and beyond.

B Daan Westenbrink, Adriaan A Voors, Willem-Peter T Ruifrok, Wiek H van Gilst, Dirk J van Veldhuisen

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Review in Current heart failure reports, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

B Daan WestenbrinkUniversity Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. b.d.westenbrink@thorax.umcg.nl
Adriaan A Voors
Willem-Peter T Ruifrok
Wiek H van Gilst
Dirk J van Veldhuisen
Hanze University of Applied Sciences · NLUniversity Medical Center Groningen · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Erythropoietin (EPO) is a glycoprotein hormone implicated in the regulation of red blood cell production. Anemia is common in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients and associated with an inappropriately low EPO-production, suggesting a role for its recombinant human form (rhEPO) in treatment. Although safety concerns have been raised regarding treatment with rhEPO in patients with chronic kidney disease, treatment with rhEPO in patients with CHF has so far been safe and well tolerated. The effect of rhEPO on outcome in anemic CHF patients is under investigation in a phase III clinical trial. In addition to its erythropoietic effects, EPO has been detected in the cardiovascular system, fueling intense research into possible non-hematopoietic effects. EPO has been shown to exert protective effects on the heart during acute myocardial ischemia and improve cardiac function in experimental CHF. Acute protection is mediated through reduction of apoptotic cell death. Improvement of cardiac function in CHF is related to myocardial neovascularization. EPO exhibits a vast array of beneficial effects in cardiovascular disease. In addition to the correction of anemia in CHF, rhEPO might benefit patients with cardiovascular disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsCardiovascular DiseasesErythropoiesisErythropoietinHumansRecombinant ProteinsTreatment OutcomeErythropoietinRecombinant Proteins

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PMID17883987
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