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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2020

Failure of Liposomal-amphotericin B Treatment for New World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis due to Leishmania braziliensis.

Atsushi Kosaka, Naoya Sakamoto, Mayu Hikone, Kazuo Imai, Masayuki Ota, Takuya Washino, Takuya Maeda, Sentarou Iwabuchi

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Atsushi KosakaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Japan.
Naoya SakamotoDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Japan.
Mayu HikoneDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Japan.
Kazuo ImaiDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Saitama Medical University, Japan.
Masayuki OtaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Japan.
Takuya WashinoDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Japan.
Takuya MaedaDepartment of Microbiology, Saitama Medical University, Japan.
Sentarou IwabuchiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital · JPSaitama Medical University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liposomal-amphotericin B (L-AmB) is used for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL); however, its treatment failure has not yet been described in detail. A 58-year-old man returned from the Republic of Venezuela with a cutaneous ulcer on his left lower leg. The causative pathogen was Leishmania braziliensis. We started L-AmB 3 mg/kg/day for 6 days; however, the ulcer did not resolve. The patient was successfully retreated with a higher dose L-AmB 4 mg/kg/day 9 times (total, 36 mg/kg). If L-AmB fails to treat CL and other therapeutics cannot be used, increasing the L-AmB dose is a viable option.

Indexed as

Amphotericin BAntiprotozoal AgentsDiagnosis, DifferentialDose-Response Relationship, DrugHumansLeishmania braziliensisLeishmaniasis, CutaneousMaleMiddle AgedRetreatmentTreatment FailureAmphotericin BAntiprotozoal Agentsliposomal amphotericin Bcutaneous leishmaniasisLeishmania braziliensisliposomal-amphotericin B

Identifiers

PMID32378656
PMCPMC7270753
OpenAlexW3022048541

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