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ArticleUS ophthalmic review2017

Advances in Age-related Macular Degeneration Understanding and Therapy.

Joan W Miller, Saghar Bagheri, Demetrios G Vavvas

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Article in US ophthalmic review, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joan W MillerRetina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US.
Saghar BagheriRetina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US.
Demetrios G VavvasRetina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US.
Harvard University · USAmgen (United States) · US

Funding

Necroptosis, neuroprotection and axonal regeneration in retina ganglion cell injuryR01EY025362 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI VAVVAS, DEMETRIOS · 2015 to 2018
$1.5M
Necroptosis and Neuroprotection in AMDR21EY023079 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI VAVVAS, DEMETRIOS · 2013 to 2014
$404k
Second International Biennial Symposium on Ocular RegenerationR13EY027184 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI VAVVAS, DEMETRIOS · 2016 to 2016
$20k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY025362NEI NIH HHS R13 EY027184NEI NIH HHS R21 EY023079
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While the development of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) as a therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was a great success, the pathologic processes underlying dry AMD that eventually leads to photoreceptor dysfunction, death, and vision loss remain elusive to date, with a lack of effective therapies and increasing prevalence of the disease. There is an overwhelming need to improve the classification system of AMD, to increase our understanding of cell death mechanisms involved in both neovascular and non-neovascular AMD, and to develop better biomarkers and clinical endpoints to eventually be able to identify better therapeutic targets-especially early in the disease process. There is no doubt that it is a matter of time before progress will be made and better therapies will be developed for non-neovascular AMD.

Indexed as

age-related macular degeneration (AMD)anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)biomarkerscomplement inhibitionneuroprotectionstatin

Identifiers

PMID29142592
PMCPMC5683729
OpenAlexW2767258002

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