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ArticleJournal of blood medicine2019

Cold agglutinin disease: current challenges and future prospects.

Sigbjørn Berentsen, Alexander Röth, Ulla Randen, Bernd Jilma, Geir E Tjønnfjord

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Article in Journal of blood medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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  8. Occurrence of Cold Agglutinin Disease among Patients with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia: A Hungarian Single-Center Experience.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2026
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  11. [Cold agglutinin disease (CAD)].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Sigbjørn BerentsenDepartment of Research and Innovation, Haugesund Hospital, Haugesund, Norway.
Alexander RöthDepartment of Hematology, West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Ulla RandenDepartment of Pathology, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.
Bernd JilmaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Geir E TjønnfjordDepartment of Haematology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Akershus University Hospital · NOMedical University of Vienna · ATOslo University Hospital · NOPrivatsykehuset Haugesund · NOUniversity of Duisburg-Essen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a complement-dependent, classical pathway-mediated immune hemolytic disease, accounting for 15-25% of autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and at the same time, a distinct clonal B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder of the bone marrow. The disease burden is often high, but not all patients require pharmacological treatment. Several therapies directed at the pathogenic B-cells are now available. Rituximab plus bendamustine or rituximab monotherapy should be considered first-line treatment, depending on individual patient characteristics. Novel treatment options that target the classical complement pathway are under development and appear very promising, and the C1s inhibitor sutimlimab is currently being investigated in two clinical Phase II and III trials. These achievements have raised new challenges and further prospects, which are discussed. Patients with CAD requiring therapy should be considered for clinical trials.

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autoimmune hemolytic anemiacold agglutinin diseasecomplementcomplement inhibitorslymphoproliferativetherapy

Identifiers

PMID31114413
PMCPMC6497508
OpenAlexW2937199787

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