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ArticleThe Lancet. Microbe2021

Potential benefit of convalescent plasma transfusions in immunocompromised patients with COVID-19.

Roman N Rodionov, Anne Biener, Peter Spieth, Martin Achleitner, Kristina Hölig, Martin Aringer, Geltrude Mingrone, Victor M Corman, Christian Drosten, Stefan R Bornstein and 2 more

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In one paragraph

Article in The Lancet. Microbe, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Lessons learned from the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 and specific considerations for immunocompromised patients.Transfusion and apheresis science : official journal of the World Apheresis Association : official journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis · 2022
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  7. Is convalescent plasma futile in COVID-19? A Bayesian re-analysis of the RECOVERY randomized controlled trial.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  12. Therapeutic advances in COVID-19.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Roman N RodionovMedical Clinical III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Anne BienerMedical Clinical III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Peter SpiethAnaesthesiology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Martin AchleitnerMedical Clinical III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Kristina HöligMedical Clinical I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Martin AringerMedical Clinical III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Geltrude MingroneFondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Victor M CormanCharité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Institute of Virology, Berlin, Germany.
Christian DrostenCharité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Institute of Virology, Berlin, Germany.
Stefan R BornsteinMedical Clinical III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Torsten TonnTransfusion Medicine, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Institute for Transfusion Medicine, German Red Cross Blood Donation Service North-East, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Martin KolditzMedical Clinical I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
TU Dresden · DEUniversity Hospital Carl Gustav Carus · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEKing's College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Blood Component TransfusionCOVID-19 SerotherapyHumansImmunization, PassiveImmunocompromised HostPlasma

Identifiers

PMID33817676
PMCPMC8009633
OpenAlexW3142263419

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