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ArticleClinical rheumatology2010

L-Arginine in pregnant scleroderma patients.

Dilia Giuggioli, Michele Colaci, Marco Sebastiani, Clodoveo Ferri

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Article in Clinical rheumatology, 2010. 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
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Complementary therapies for patients with systemic sclerosis.Journal of scleroderma and related disorders · 2019
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  4. Preeclampsia 2012.Journal of pregnancy · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dilia GiuggioliRheumatology Unit, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. giuggioli.dilia@policlinico.mo.it
Michele Colaci
Marco Sebastiani
Clodoveo Ferri
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) pregnant women show a high frequency of premature births and occurrence of renal crisis. Some evidences showed the role of L-arginine in the prevention and treatment of preeclampsia. Here, we report our experience on the effect of L-arginine treatment in four consecutive SSc pregnant women. Two patients, who have planned the pregnancy, were treated with oral L-arginine; both delivered healthy babies without any prenatal complications. The other two, with high risk of pregnancy complications because of severe lung involvement and type 1 diabetes, respectively, underwent i.v. L-arginine: patient 3 had a premature delivery of a 2-kg healthy baby, while patient 4 developed preeclampsia and, at the 28th week, delivered a 1,050-g girl. The neonate had severe respiratory distress syndrome complicated by severe infection and died at day 28. Although limited, our pilot study suggests that L-arginine may be a useful therapeutic agent in pregnant SSc women.

Indexed as

Administration, OralAdultArginineFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornInjections, IntravenousPilot ProjectsPre-EclampsiaPregnancyPregnancy ComplicationsPregnancy OutcomeScleroderma, SystemicArginine

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PMID20213128
OpenAlexW2058309596

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