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ReviewWorld journal of clinical pediatrics2021

Can omalizumab be used effectively to treat severe conjunctivitis in children with asthma? A case example and review of the literature.

Stephen Doherty, Melissa Mulholland, Michael Shields, Patrick McCrossan

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Review in World journal of clinical pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 46% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephen DohertyDepartment of Paediatrics, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast BT12 6BA, United Kingdom.
Melissa MulhollandDepartment of Paediatric Education and Simulation, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast BT12 6BA, United Kingdom.
Michael ShieldsDepartment of Child Health, Queens University Belfast, Belfast BT12 6BJ, United Kingdom.
Patrick McCrossanCentre of Medical Education, Queens University Belfast, School of Medicine, Belfast BT9 7BL, United Kingdom.
Queen's University Belfast · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 14-year-old girl with poorly controlled asthma attended the difficult-to-treat asthma clinic for review. Although she has eosinophilia and significantly raised immunoglobulin E levels, she is not currently a candidate for omalizumab (Xolair). She also suffers from chronic urticaria, eosinophilic eosophagitis and severe conjunctivitis. You wonder if omalizumab would be effective in treating her multiple atopic conditions, in particular her troublesome conjunctivitis. PubMed was searched using the following search terms: (Omalizumab) or (Xolair) and (conjunctivitis). Searches were conducted in November 2020. Abstracts were selected for full text review if the study population identified asthma as a comorbidity. Non-paediatric studies and those that were not written in English were excluded. The use of omalizumab has the potential to be effective in the treatment of conjunctivitis associated with asthma and other atopic conditions. However, research is needed to address the question, in the form of multicenter, double-blind randomized control trials.

Indexed as

AllergyAsthmaAtopyConjunctivitisOmalizumabPediatrics

Identifiers

PMID34316438
PMCPMC8290994
OpenAlexW3185419892

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