Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29472700›Full record

ReviewEye (London, England)2018

Neuroprotective agents in the management of glaucoma.

C Nucci, A Martucci, C Giannini, L A Morrone, G Bagetta, R Mancino

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Review in Eye (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.3field-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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

C NucciOphthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. nucci@med.uniroma2.it.
A MartucciOphthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3725-8211
C GianniniOphthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
L A MorroneDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
G BagettaDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8540-6218
R MancinoOphthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
University of Rome Tor Vergata · ITUniversity of Calabria · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy, specifically a neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and their axons. The pathogenesis of RGC loss in glaucoma remains incompletely understood and a broad range of possible mechanisms have been implicated. Clinical evidence indicates that lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) does not prevent progression in all patients; therefore, risk factors other than those related to IOP are involved in the disease. The need for alternative, non-IOP-lowering treatments focused at preventing progression, that is, neuroprotectants, has become of interest to both the patient and the physician. Experimental evidence accumulated during the past two decades lend a great deal of support to molecules endowed with neuroprotective features. However, translation to the clinic of the latter drugs results unsuccessful mostly because of the lack of reliable in vivo measure of retinal damage, thus hampering the good therapeutic potential of neuroprotective agents given alone or as adjuvant therapy to IOP-lowering agents. Further research effort is needed to better understand the mechanisms involved in glaucoma and the means to translate into clinic neuroprotective drugs.

Indexed as

GlaucomaHumansNeuroprotectionNeuroprotective AgentsNeuroprotective Agents

Identifiers

PMID29472700
PMCPMC5944652
OpenAlexW2788179764

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