Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33664041›Full record

ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Highly effective use of aprepitant in an adolescent girl with severe cyclic vomiting syndrome.

Maria Nivatsi, Ilona Aslanidou, Elpis Mantadakis

Open access · greenAbstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Maria NivatsiDepartment of Paediatrics, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Thrace, Greece.
Ilona AslanidouDepartment of Paediatrics, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Thrace, Greece.
Elpis MantadakisDepartment of Paediatrics, Democritus University of Thrace Faculty of Medicine, Alexandroupolis, Thrace, Greece emantada@med.duth.gr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7837-9733
University Hospital of Alexandroupolis · GRDemocritus University of Thrace · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is a debilitating functional gastrointestinal disorder. Diagnosis is based on the Rome III criteria. There are no evidence-based guidelines for the management of paediatric CVS, although ondansetron and antimigraine medications are frequently tried. We describe a 13-year-old adolescent girl with severe CVS and numerous hospital admissions for dehydration because of cyclic vomiting. She had failed oral ondansetron therapy. Oral aprepitant (125 mg in the first, and 85 mg on the second and third days), a neurokinin 1 receptor antagonist that has been approved for preventing chemotherapy-induced vomiting or postoperative emesis, was tried in our patient at home during the first prodromal signs of an upset stomach. She had a dramatic response to it, with no further episodes of vomiting since its start. There is an urgent need for randomised clinical studies to assess the efficacy of available treatment options, including aprepitant in patients with severe CVS.

Indexed as

AntiemeticsAntineoplastic AgentsAdolescentAprepitantChildFemaleHumansMorpholinesNeurokinin-1 Receptor AntagonistsVomitingAntiemeticsAntineoplastic AgentsAprepitantMorpholinesNeurokinin-1 Receptor Antagonistspaediatric prescribingpreventative pediatrics

Identifiers

PMID33664041
PMCPMC7934711
OpenAlexW3135131515

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.