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Trial reportScientific reports2018

Single, very low rituximab doses in healthy volunteers - a pilot and a randomized trial: implications for dosing and biosimilarity testing.

Christian Schoergenhofer, Michael Schwameis, Christa Firbas, Johann Bartko, Ulla Derhaschnig, Robert M Mader, Raute Sunder Plaßmann, Petra Jilma-Stohlawetz, Kalpna Desai, Priya Misra and 2 more

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 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

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Christian SchoergenhoferDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
Michael SchwameisDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
Christa FirbasDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
Johann BartkoDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
Ulla DerhaschnigDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
Robert M MaderDepartment of Medicine I, Division of Hematology and Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3017-8240
Raute Sunder PlaßmannDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
Petra Jilma-StohlawetzDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
Kalpna DesaiApobiologix, Apotex Inc, Toronto, ON M9L 2Z7, Canada.
Priya MisraApobiologix, Apotex Inc, Toronto, ON M9L 2Z7, Canada.
Ulrich JägerDepartment of Medicine I, Division of Hematology and Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
Bernd JilmaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria. bernd.jilma@meduniwien.ac.at.
Medical University of Vienna · ATApotex (Canada) · CAComprehensive Cancer Center Vienna · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are no  dose-finding trials available for rituximab that could guide dosing in non-malignant diseases. We hypothesized that currently used doses (≥375 mg/m

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Healthy VolunteersAdultAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalBiosimilar PharmaceuticalsB-LymphocytesDrug MonitoringFemaleHumansLymphocyte CountMaleMiddle AgedPilot ProjectsResearch DesignRituximabTime FactorsYoung AdultAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalBiosimilar PharmaceuticalsRituximab

Identifiers

PMID29317666
PMCPMC5760686
OpenAlexW2781660650

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