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ArticleBMJ case reports2020

Rituximab therapy in a patient with steroid-refractory bird fancier's lung.

Etienne Ceci Bonello, Jonathan Gauci, Sarah Bonello, Peter Fsadni, Stephen Montefort

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Etienne Ceci BonelloDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, L-Imsida, Malta etienne.ceci@gov.mt.
Jonathan GauciDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, L-Imsida, Malta.
Sarah BonelloDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, L-Imsida, Malta.
Peter FsadniDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, L-Imsida, Malta.
Stephen MontefortDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, L-Imsida, Malta.
Mater Dei Hospital · MT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 62-year-old woman presented with a 3-month history of shortness of breath on exertion and dry cough. On examination, she was noted to have fine end-inspiratory crepitations over the upper zone of the lungs. Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) showed a restrictive defect. Initial chest radiography revealed diffuse reticular interstitial shadowing while high-resolution CT scan of the thorax showed fibrotic changes. Avian precipitins were also highly positive for pigeons, parrots and budgerigars. Taking into account these results, the patient was diagnosed with hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Antigen avoidance, oral glucocorticoids and azathioprine achieved an initial improvement in PFTs and symptoms; however, the patient still deteriorated, requiring long-term oxygen therapy. While working the patient up for lung transplantation, rituximab was given to good effect (acting as a bridging therapy) as it achieved symptomatic relief and stabilisation of her PFTs.

Indexed as

AnimalsBird Fancier's LungCoughDrug ResistanceDyspneaFemaleGlucocorticoidsHumansLungMiddle AgedOxygenRespiratory Function TestsRituximabTomography, X-Ray ComputedTreatment OutcomeGlucocorticoidsOxygenRituximabimmunologyinterstitial lung diseaseradiology

Identifiers

PMID33370981
PMCPMC7757452
OpenAlexW3116301031

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