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ReviewRheumatology international2022

Myopathy associated with anti-signal recognition particle antibodies with pulmonary involvement and response to rituximab.

Carolina Mazeda, Rita Cunha, Pedro Gonçalo Ferreira, Anabela Barcelos, Renata Aguiar

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Review in Rheumatology international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Carolina MazedaRheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal. carolina_m43@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9200-5022
Rita CunhaRheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-3855-1129
Pedro Gonçalo FerreiraPneumology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-0438-8597
Anabela BarcelosRheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4116-8964
Renata AguiarRheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-1374-2738
Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga · PTNational School of Public Health · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors present the case of a 76-year-old female patient with progressive decrease in proximal muscle strength, fatigue, dyspnea, diffuse hand edema and painful triphasic Raynaud's phenomenon. Anti-SRP and anti-SSA antibodies were detected, muscle biopsy revealed changes consistent with necrotizing myopathy and capillaroscopy had findings compatible with systemic sclerosis. High-resolution chest computed tomography revealed interstitial lung disease with a non-specific interstitial pneumonia pattern. Lung function tests demonstrated a forced vital capacity 93% and a diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide of 65% predicted. After multidisciplinary discussion, she was diagnosed with immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy/systemic sclerosis overlap syndrome with pulmonary involvement. Initially, dual immunomodulation therapy with high-dose steroids and intravenous immunoglobulin was started, but after 4 weeks, the patient had clinical and analytical deterioration. At this time, she was started on rituximab, with an excellent and sustained response at both muscle and lung, sustained after 12 months.

Indexed as

Autoimmune DiseasesMuscular DiseasesMyositisScleroderma, SystemicAgedAutoantibodiesFemaleHumansRituximabSignal Recognition ParticleAutoantibodiesRituximabSignal Recognition ParticleAutoantibodiesInterstitial lung diseaseMyositisSignal recognition particle

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PMID34086073
OpenAlexW3164442125

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