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Trial reportBone marrow transplantation2017

Scleral lenses for severe chronic GvHD-related keratoconjunctivitis sicca: a retrospective study by the SFGM-TC.

L Magro, J Gauthier, M Richet, M Robin, S Nguyen, F Suarez, J-H Dalle, T Fagot, A Huynh, M-T Rubio and 5 more

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Trial report in Bone marrow transplantation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Scleral lenses and PROSE: indications, complications, and future challenges.Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal · 2025
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  6. [Chinese expert consensus on ocular chronic graft-versus-host disease (2023)].Zhonghua xue ye xue za zhi = Zhonghua xueyexue zazhi · 2023
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  8. Update on indications, complications, and outcomes of scleral contact lenses.Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal · 2021
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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

15 authors.

L MagroCHRU Lille, Pôle Spécialités Médicales et Gérontologie, Service des Maladies du Sang, Secteur Allogreffe de Cellules Souches Hématopoïétiques, Lille, France.
J GauthierCHRU Lille, Pôle Spécialités Médicales et Gérontologie, Service des Maladies du Sang, Secteur Allogreffe de Cellules Souches Hématopoïétiques, Lille, France.
M RichetCH Tourcoing, Service d'Ophtalmologie, Tourcoing, France.
M RobinService d'hématologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France.
S NguyenAPHP, Hôpital La Pitié Salpêtrière, Service d'Hématologie, Paris, France.
F SuarezHématologie, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3537-9052
J-H DalleHôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France.
T FagotCHU Haut-Lévêque, Service d'Hématologie et de Thérapie Cellulaire, Bordeaux, France.
A HuynhCHU Toulouse, Hôpital Purpan, Service d'Hématologie, Toulouse, France.
M-T RubioCHRU Nancy, Service d'Hématologie et Médecine Interne, Hôpital Brabois, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France.
R OumadelyCHU Caen, Service d'Hématologie, Caen, France.
S VigourouxCHU Haut-Lévêque, Service d'Hématologie et de Thérapie Cellulaire, Bordeaux, France.
N MilpiedCHU Haut-Lévêque, Service d'Hématologie et de Thérapie Cellulaire, Bordeaux, France.
A DelcampeCHU Rouen, Service d'Ophtalmologie, Rouen, France.
I Yakoub-AghaCHRU Lille, Pôle Spécialités Médicales et Gérontologie, Service des Maladies du Sang, Secteur Allogreffe de Cellules Souches Hématopoïétiques, Lille, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic GvHD-related keratoconjunctivitis sicca (cGvHD-related KCS) can significantly alter the quality of life of patients after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The aim of this work was to assess the efficacy and tolerability of scleral lenses to treat severe cGvHD-related KCS. In this retrospective, multicenter study, we included 60 consecutive patients diagnosed with cGvHD-related KCS and fitted with scleral lenses. Patients were evaluated at baseline and at 2 months with the following tests: the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) to assess quality of life, the Oxford score to grade corneal damage and the logarithm of minimal angle of resolution (Log MAR) scale to determine visual acuity. We observed improvement in quality of life in 58 patients (97%). All parameters improved at 2 months. We observed significant differences at 2 months compared with baseline for the mean OSDI (86 versus 30, respectively, P<0.001), the mean Oxford score (3.2 versus 1.3, respectively, P<0.001) as well as visual acuity (Log MAR of 0.33 versus 0.10, respectively, P<0.001). Treatment with scleral lenses was discontinued in only 5 patients (8%) with a median follow-up of 20.5 months (range: 2-125 months). Scleral lenses were very efficient and well tolerated in patients with severe cGvHD-related KCS.

Indexed as

Graft vs Host DiseaseHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationKeratoconjunctivitis SiccaQuality of LifeSeverity of Illness IndexAdolescentAdultAgedAllograftsChildChronic DiseaseFemaleHumansLens Capsule, CrystallineMaleMiddle Aged

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PMID28218751

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