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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2011

Drotrecogin alpha: a rational approach to the treatment of submassive pulmonary embolism?

Charles Marc Samama, Anne Godier

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Charles Marc SamamaDepartment of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hotel-Dieu University Hospital, 1, place du Parvis de Notre-Dame, 75181 Paris Cedex 04, France. marc.samama@htd.aphp.fr
Anne Godier
Hôtel-Dieu de Paris · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combining therapeutic doses of low-molecular-weight heparins and increasing doses of recombinant activated protein C - Drotrecogin alpha (activated), or DAA - is of theoretical interest with regard to the control of coagulation activation. The study by Dempfle and colleagues presents new data showing that endogenous activated protein C levels do not increase in nonseptic patients with pulmonary embolism. However, the results of the addition of these two treatments are puzzling, leaving unresolved the questionable clinical relevance of this combination and the possible increase in bleeding risk.

Indexed as

Blood CoagulationEnoxaparinFemaleFibrinolysisFibrinolytic AgentsHumansMaleProtein CPulmonary EmbolismEnoxaparinFibrinolytic AgentsProtein C

Identifiers

PMID21345242
PMCPMC3221987
OpenAlexW2138985158

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