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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2020

Long-Term Safety and Usefulness of Mexiletine in a Large Cohort of Patients Affected by Non-dystrophic Myotonias.

Anna Modoni, Adele D'Amico, Guido Primiano, Fiorentino Capozzoli, Jean-François Desaphy, Mauro Lo Monaco

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.6field-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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effectiveness and safety of mexiletine versus placebo in patients with myotonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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  4. Pharmacological therapy of non-dystrophic myotonias.Acta myologica : myopathies and cardiomyopathies : official journal of the Mediterranean Society of Myology · 2025
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  5. Preclinical study of the antimyotonic efficacy of safinamide in the myotonic mouse model.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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  9. Blockers of Skeletal Muscle NaInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Anna ModoniDepartment of Geriatric, Neurologic, Orthopedics and Head-Neck Science, Area of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Adele D'AmicoUnit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Department of Neurosciences, Bambino Gesú Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Guido PrimianoDepartment of Geriatric, Neurologic, Orthopedics and Head-Neck Science, Area of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Fiorentino CapozzoliDepartment of Neurosciences, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
Jean-François DesaphyDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Polyclinic, Bari, Italy.
Mauro Lo MonacoDepartment of Geriatric, Neurologic, Orthopedics and Head-Neck Science, Area of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · ITBambino Gesù Children's Hospital · ITNeuroscience Institute · ITUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

adverse effectsgenotype-phenotype correlationsmexiletinenon-dyspophyc myotoniastreatment tolerability

Identifiers

PMID32655465
PMCPMC7326038
OpenAlexW3027068623

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