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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Emerging Concepts in Immune Thrombocytopenia.

Maurice Swinkels, Maaike Rijkers, Jan Voorberg, Gestur Vidarsson, Frank W G Leebeek, A J Gerard Jansen

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
110citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
15.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

110 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 230 citations in OpenAlex.

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50 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Maurice SwinkelsDepartment of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Maaike RijkersDepartment of Plasma Proteins, AMC-Sanquin Landsteiner Laboratory, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Jan VoorbergDepartment of Plasma Proteins, AMC-Sanquin Landsteiner Laboratory, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Gestur VidarssonDepartment of Experimental Immunohematology, AMC-Sanquin Landsteiner Laboratory, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Frank W G LeebeekDepartment of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
A J Gerard JansenDepartment of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Erasmus University Rotterdam · NLSanquin · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disease defined by low platelet counts which presents with an increased bleeding risk. Several genetic risk factors (e.g., polymorphisms in immunity-related genes) predispose to ITP. Autoantibodies and cytotoxic CD8

Indexed as

Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, IdiopathicHumansautoantibodiesautoimmunityCD8+ T cellsimmune thrombocytopeniaimmune thrombocytopenic purpuraITP

Identifiers

PMID29760702
PMCPMC5937051
OpenAlexW2799786040

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