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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

The Effect of Anakinra in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Konstantinos G Kyriakoulis, Anastasios Kollias, Garyphallia Poulakou, Ioannis G Kyriakoulis, Ioannis P Trontzas, Andriani Charpidou, Konstantinos Syrigos

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05611710 (Anakinra for Dengue Patients With Hyperinflammation - a Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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.

NCT05611710 phase2active not recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Anakinra for Dengue Patients With Hyperinflammation - a Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorOxford University Clinical Research Unit, VietnamRan2023 to 2027Enrolled160ConditionsDengue, Dengue With Warning Signs, Severe Dengue, AnakinraArmsPlacebo, Anakinra
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Dengue and severe dengue.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025
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  9. Severe COVID-19: Drugs and Clinical Trials.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
    Review
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  11. Autoinflammatory manifestations in adult patients.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2022
    Article
  12. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022
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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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Konstantinos G KyriakoulisThird Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8986-2704
Anastasios KolliasThird Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2098-1665
Garyphallia PoulakouThird Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Ioannis G KyriakoulisThird Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Ioannis P TrontzasThird Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Andriani CharpidouThird Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos SyrigosThird Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of immunomodulatory agents in the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 has been of increasing interest. Anakinra, an interleukin-1 inhibitor, has been shown to offer significant clinical benefits in patients with COVID-19 and hyperinflammation. An updated systematic review and meta-analysis regarding the impact of anakinra on the outcomes of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 was conducted. Studies, randomized or non-randomized with adjustment for confounders, reporting on the adjusted risk of death in patients treated with anakinra versus those not treated with anakinra were deemed eligible. A search was performed in PubMed/EMBASE databases, as well as in relevant websites, until 1 August 2021. The meta-analysis of six studies that fulfilled the inclusion criteria (

Indexed as

anakinraCOVID-19COVID-19 therapeuticsimmunomodulatory treatmentmeta-analysismortalityupdated

Identifiers

PMID34640480
PMCPMC8509118
OpenAlexW3203375666

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