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ReviewTherapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease2021

Autologous stem-cell transplantation in systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease: early action in selected patients rather than escalation therapy for all.

J Spierings, Y-H Chiu, M Voortman, J M van Laar

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Review in Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Systemic sclerosis.Lancet (London, England) · 2023
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

J SpieringsDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht, 3584 CX, the Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2546-312X
Y-H ChiuDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
M VoortmanDepartment of Pulmonology, Division of Heart and Lungs, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
J M van LaarDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
University Medical Center Utrecht · NLThe Royal Free Hospital · GBTri-Service General Hospital · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare rheumatic disease characterised by inflammation, vasculopathy and fibrosis of skin and internal organs. A common complication and a leading cause of death in SSc is interstitial lung disease (ILD). The current armamentarium of treatments in SSc-ILD mainly includes immunosuppressive therapies and has recently been expanded with anti-fibrotic agent nintedanib. Autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT) is increasingly used in progressive diffuse cutaneous SSc. This intensive treatment has been studied in three randomised trials and demonstrated to improve survival and quality of life. In the subsets of patients with SSc-ILD, SCT resulted in stabilisation and modest improvement of lung volumes and disease extent on high resolution computed tomography, but less impact was seen on diffusion capacity. Comparison of SCT outcomes with results from SSc-ILD trials is difficult though, as lung involvement

Indexed as

autologous stem cell transplantationdiffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosisinterstitial lung diseasereviewsclerodermasystemic sclerosis

Identifiers

PMID34394749
PMCPMC8361525
OpenAlexW3189007122

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