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ReviewPediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2015

Fertility preservation in patients receiving cyclophosphamide therapy for renal disease.

Radha Gajjar, Steven D Miller, Kevin E Meyers, Jill P Ginsberg

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Review in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  5. The Oxidative Stress of Human Sperm Cryopreservation.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
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  7. Kidney disease and reproductive health.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2025
    Review
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  11. Do we really need cyclophosphamide for lupus nephritis?Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2024
    Article
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  13. Early-onset lupus nephritis.Clinical kidney journal · 2024
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  18. Development of a Pediatric Fertility Preservation Program: A Report From the Pediatric Initiative Network of the Oncofertility Consortium.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2019
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  20. Process and Pitfalls of Sperm Cryopreservation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2017
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Radha GajjarDivision of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA, gajjara@email.chop.edu.
Steven D Miller
Kevin E Meyers
Jill P Ginsberg
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USJohns Hopkins Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyclophosphamide continues to have an important role in the treatment of renal disease, including nephrotic syndrome and lupus nephritis, despite known complications of gonadotoxicity and potential infertility in both male and female patients. It is important that the physician recommending this therapy mitigates the effect of the drug on fertility by adhering to recommendations on dosing limits and offering fertility-preserving strategies. In addition to well-established methods, such as sperm banking and embryo cryopreservation, advances in reproductive technology have yielded strategies such as oocyte cryopreservation, resulting in more fertility-preserving options for the pediatric patient. Despite these advances, there continues to be a significant barrier to referral and access to sperm banks and fertility specialists. These issues are further complicated by ethical issues associated with the treatment of pediatric patients. In this review we explore the development of recommended dosing limits and include a discussion of the available fertility-preserving methods, strategies for increasing access to fertility specialists, and the ethical considerations facing the pediatric healthcare provider.

Indexed as

AdultChildCyclophosphamideFemaleFertility PreservationHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsKidney DiseasesMaleCyclophosphamideImmunosuppressive Agents

Identifiers

PMID25190492
OpenAlexW2000948923

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