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ReviewDermatologic therapy2020

Immunosuppressive agents for dermatological indications in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: Rationalizing use and clinical applicability.

Ananta Khurana, Snigdha Saxena

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Review in Dermatologic therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Using cyclosporine in the COVID era: An emergent need for caution.Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2020
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  4. Review
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ananta KhuranaDepartment of Dermatology, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and PGIMER, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7020-7777
Snigdha SaxenaDepartment of Dermatology, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and PGIMER, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9665-7853
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ongoing COVID-19 epidemic has brought to the fore many concerns related to use of immunosuppressive agents (ISAs) in dermatology. While it is unclear whether the patients on ISAs for skin conditions are more prone to develop COVID-19, and what impact the ISA may have on the clinical outcome if a patient does get infected, rationalizations based on the specific immune effects of each drug, and existing literature on incidence of various infections with each, are possible. In this review, we provide the readers with practically useful insights into these aspects, related to the conventional ISAs, and briefly mention the clinical outcome data available on related scenarios from other patient groups so far. In the end, we have attempted to provide some clinically useful points regarding practical use of each dermatologically relevant conventional ISA in the current scenario.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusPandemicsComorbidityCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansImmunosuppressive AgentsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Skin DiseasesImmunosuppressive AgentsazathioprineciclosporineCOVID-19cyclophosphamidedermatologyimmunologyimmunosuppressivemethotrexatemycophenolatepathogenesissteroids

Identifiers

PMID32436617
PMCPMC7280701
OpenAlexW3027368004

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