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Trial reportThe European respiratory journal2014

Rituximab in the treatment of refractory pulmonary sarcoidosis.

Nadera J Sweiss, Elyse E Lower, Mehdi Mirsaeidi, Steven Dudek, Joe G N Garcia, David Perkins, Patricia W Finn, Robert P Baughman

Open access · bronzeAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IClinical Trial, Phase II
In one paragraph

Trial report in The European respiratory journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  6. Contemporary management of sarcoidosis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026
    Review
  7. Janus kinase inhibitors in pulmonary and extra-pulmonary sarcoidosis: A case series and a systematic review of the literature.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2025
    Article
  8. Review
  9. Immunopathogenesis of Sarcoidosis.Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
    Review
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  14. Sarcoidosis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025
    Review
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  20. Pulmonary Function in Pulmonary Sarcoidosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
    Review

8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Nadera J SweissChicago, IL.
Elyse E Lower
Mehdi Mirsaeidi
Steven Dudek
Joe G N Garcia
David Perkins
Patricia W Finn
Robert P Baughman
University of Illinois Chicago · USUniversity of Cincinnati · USUniversity of Arizona · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

Pulmonary and Critical Care Post-Doctoral Research Training ProgramT32HL082547 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI FINN, PATRICIA W · 2007 to 2017
$2.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL082547
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Adrenal Cortex HormonesAgedAntibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-DerivedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesRituximabSarcoidosis, PulmonarySpirometryTreatment OutcomeVital CapacityAdrenal Cortex HormonesAntibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-DerivedRituximab

Identifiers

PMID24488568
PMCPMC4167390
OpenAlexW2124947517

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.