Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33181112›Full record

ReviewJornal de pediatria

Treatment of patients with immunodeficiency: Medication, gene therapy, and transplantation.

Gesmar Rodrigues Silva Segundo, Antonio Condino-Neto

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Review in Jornal de pediatria. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gesmar Rodrigues Silva SegundoUniversidade Federal de Uberlândia, Departamento de Pediatra, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: gesmar@famed.ufu.br.
Antonio Condino-NetoUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Departamento de Imunologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo · BRUniversidade Federal de Uberlândia · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo provide an overview of drug treatment, transplantation, and gene therapy for patients with primary immunodeficiencies. SOURCE OF DATA: Non-systematic review of the literature in the English language carried out at PubMed. SYNTHESIS OF DATA: The treatment of patients with primary immunodeficiencies aims to control their disease, especially the treatment and prevention of infections through antibiotic prophylaxis and/or immunoglobulin replacement therapy. In several diseases, it is possible to use specific medications for the affected pathway with control of the condition, especially in autoimmune or autoinflammatory processes associated with inborn immunity errors. In some diseases, treatment can be curative through hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT); more recently, gene therapy has opened new horizons through new technologies.

conclusionsImmunoglobulin replacement therapy remains the main therapeutic tool. Precision medicine with specific drugs for altered immune pathways is already a reality for several immune defects. Advances in the management of HSCT and gene therapy have expanded the capacity for curative treatments in patients with primary immunodeficiencies.

Indexed as

Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationImmunologic Deficiency SyndromesPrimary Immunodeficiency DiseasesGenetic TherapyHumansAntibiotic therapyGene therapyHematopoietic stem cell transplantationImmunoglobulin therapyPrimary immunodeficiency diseases

Identifiers

PMID33181112
PMCPMC9432285
OpenAlexW3101908346

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