Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32459939›Full record

ArticleThe New England journal of medicine2020

Plasma Exchange and Glucocorticoids in Severe ANCA-Associated Vasculitis. Reply.

Michael Walsh, Peter A Merkel, David R W Jayne

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Article in The New England journal of medicine, 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
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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.

  1. Making use of avacopan in clinical practice.Clinical kidney journal · 2026
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  3. Plasmapheresis for systemic vasculitis.Therapeutic apheresis and dialysis : official peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Apheresis, the Japanese Society for Apheresis, the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael WalshMcMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada walshm@phri.ca.
Peter A MerkelUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
David R W JayneUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Funding

VCRC-VF FellowshipU54AR057319 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MERKEL, PETER A · 2009 to 2020
$12.5M
Plasma Exchange and Glucocorticoids for Treatment of ANCA-Associated VasculitisR01FD003516 · FDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MERKEL, PETER A · 2009 to 2015
$1.6M
FDA HHS R01 FD003516NIAMS NIH HHS U54 AR057319
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated VasculitisPlasma ExchangeGlucocorticoidsHumansPlasmapheresisGlucocorticoids

Identifiers

PMID32459939

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Registered trials

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