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ReviewSeminars in immunopathology2008

Advances in the diagnosis and immunotherapy for ocular inflammatory disease.

Steven Yeh, Lisa J Faia, Robert B Nussenblatt

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Review in Seminars in immunopathology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Current landscape of drug induced retinal vasculitis.Journal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection · 2026
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  7. Fundus autofluorescence applications in retinal imaging.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2015
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Steven YehLaboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, 10S-219, 10 Center Dr., Bethesda, MD 20892-1857, USA.
Lisa J Faia
Robert B Nussenblatt
National Eye Institute · US

Funding

Diagnosis And Treatment Of Ocular Inflammatory Disease (uveitis)ZIAEY000356 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI SEN, HATICE · 2009 to 2016
$2.7M
Diagnosis And Treatment Of Ocular Inflammatory Disease (uveitis)Z01EY000356 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI NUSSENBLATT, ROBERT B. · 2000 to 2008
$986k
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant advances in the diagnosis and therapy for uveitis have been made to improve the quality of care for patients with ocular inflammatory diseases. While traditional ophthalmic examination techniques, fluorescein angiography, and optical coherence tomography continue to play a major role in the evaluation of patients with uveitis, the advent of spectral domain optical coherence tomography and fundus autofluorescence into clinical practice provides additional information about disease processes. Polymerase chain reaction and cytokine diagnostics have also continued to play a greater role in the evaluation of patients with inflammatory diseases. The biologic agents, a group of medications that targets cytokines and other soluble mediators of inflammation, have demonstrated promise in targeted immunotherapy for specific uveitic entities. Their ophthalmic indications have continued to expand, improving the therapeutic armentarium of uveitis specialists.

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HumansImmunotherapyUveitis

Identifiers

PMID18320151
OpenAlexW1985726649

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