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ReviewAdolescent health, medicine and therapeutics2010

Chronic hepatitis C virus infection in children and adolescents: Epidemiology, natural history, and assessment of the safety and efficacy of combination therapy.

Giuseppe Indolfi, Elisa Bartolini, Davide Casavola, Massimo Resti

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Review in Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 46% 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, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hepatitis C in Pregnant Women and Their Children.Delaware journal of public health · 2019
    Article
  2. Review
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  4. Chronic Hepatitis C Infection in Children: Current Treatment and New Therapies.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2015
    Review
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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Giuseppe IndolfiDepartment of Sciences for Women and Child's Health, Liver and Pediatric Unit, Anna Meyer Children's Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Elisa BartoliniDepartment of Sciences for Women and Child's Health, Liver and Pediatric Unit, Anna Meyer Children's Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Davide CasavolaDepartment of Sciences for Women and Child's Health, Liver and Pediatric Unit, Anna Meyer Children's Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Massimo RestiDepartment of Sciences for Women and Child's Health, Liver and Pediatric Unit, Anna Meyer Children's Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Meyer Children's Hospital · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease of infectious etiology in children. Most of the children infected with HCV are asymptomatic, and only a few of them develop signs and symptoms of end-stage liver disease early in life. It is not possible to predict either in which patients HCV infection will have a bad outcome or the critical time in early adulthood when disease progression will accelerate. The experiences with therapy in children with chronic hepatitis C are based on earlier and continuing data from adult trials. The currently recommended treatment for chronic HCV infection in adults is the combination of peginterferon-á and ribavirin. The choice of this regimen is based on the results of randomized clinical trials that demonstrated the superiority of this combination treatment over standard interferon-á and ribavirin. Recently, results of pivotal, multicenter, interventional open-label studies on combined treatment with peginterferon-á and ribavirin in children have been published, and the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency have approved the combination therapy in those older than 3 years. The aim of this review is to evaluate critically the available data regarding the safety and efficacy of combination treatment with peginterferon-á and ribavirin in children.

Indexed as

adverse eventspeginterferonribavirinsustained viral responsetreatment

Identifiers

PMID24600267
PMCPMC3915892
OpenAlexW2009332598

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