Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31652991›Full record

ReviewToxins2019

The Botulinum Treatment of Neurogenic Detrusor Overactivity: The Double-Face of the Neurotoxin.

Chiara Traini, Maria Giuliana Vannucchi

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Toxins, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Review
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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chiara TrainiDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Research Unit of Histology and Embryology, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy. chiara.traini@unifi.it.
Maria Giuliana VannucchiDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Research Unit of Histology and Embryology, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy. mariagiuliana.vannucchi@unifi.it.
University of Florence · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) can counteract the highly frequent involuntary muscle contractions and the uncontrolled micturition events that characterize the neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO) due to supra-sacral spinal cord lesions. The ability of the toxin to block the neurotransmitter vesicular release causes the reduction of contractions and improves the compliance of the muscle and the bladder filling. BoNT is the second-choice treatment for NDO once the anti-muscarinic drugs have lost their effects. However, the toxin shows a time-dependent efficacy reduction up to a complete loss of activity. The cellular mechanisms responsible for BoNT effects exhaustion are not yet completely defined. Similarly, also the sites of its action are still under identification. A growing amount of data suggest that BoNT, beyond the effects on the efferent terminals, would act on the sensory system recently described in the bladder mucosa. The specimens from NDO patients no longer responding to BoNT treatment displayed a significant increase of the afferent terminals, likely excitatory, and signs of a chronic neurogenic inflammation in the mucosa. In summary, beyond the undoubted benefits in ameliorating the NDO symptomatology, BoNT treatment might bring to alterations in the bladder sensory system able to shorten its own effectiveness.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAged, 80 and overBotulinum Toxins, Type AClostridium botulinumFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMuscle, SmoothNeuromuscular AgentsUrinary Bladder, NeurogenicUrinary Bladder, OveractiveUrodynamicsBotulinum Toxins, Type ANeuromuscular Agentsafferent nerve endingsdetrusorinnervationnerve sproutingsensory systemsspinal cord lesionupper lamina propriaurinary bladderurothelium

Identifiers

PMID31652991
PMCPMC6891665
OpenAlexW2981965744

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.