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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2021

The Ototoxicity of Antimalarial Drugs-A State of the Art Review.

Magdalena Jozefowicz-Korczynska, Anna Pajor, Weronika Lucas Grzelczyk

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Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 19 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Magdalena Jozefowicz-KorczynskaBalance Disorders Unit, Otolaryngology Department, The Norbert Barlicki Memorial Teaching Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Anna PajorDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Oncology, The Norbert Barlicki Memorial Teaching Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Weronika Lucas GrzelczykBalance Disorders Unit, Otolaryngology Department, The Norbert Barlicki Memorial Teaching Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Medical University of Lodz · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review summarizes current knowledge about the occurrence of hearing and balance disorders after antimalarial drugs treatment. It also examines the clinical applications of antimalarials, their mechanisms behind this ototoxicity and how it can be monitored. It includes studies with larger numbers of patients and those in which auditory function was assessed using audiological tests. Some antimalarials have been repurposed for other conditions like autoimmune disorders, rheumatic diseases, some viral diseases and cancers. While old antimalarial drugs, such as quinoline derivatives, are known to demonstrate ototoxicity, a number of new synthetic antimalarial agents particularly artemisinin derivatives, demonstrate unknown ototoxicity. Adverse audiovestibular effects vary depending on the medication itself, its dose and route of administration, as well as the drug combination, treated disease and individual predispositions of the patient. Dizziness was commonly reported, while vestibular symptoms, hearing loss and tinnitus were observed much less frequently, and most of these symptoms were reversible. As early identification of ototoxic hearing loss is critical to introducing possible alternative treatments with less ototoxic medications, therefore monitoring systems of those drugs ototoxic side effects are much needed.

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antimalarialsdizzinesshearing lossototoxicitytinnitusvertigo

Identifiers

PMID33959089
PMCPMC8093564
OpenAlexW3154136017

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