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ReviewDer Nervenarzt2021

[Disease-modifying treatment approaches for Alzheimer's disease].

Lutz Frölich, Lucrezia Hausner

Erratum issuedOpen access · hybridAbstract readReview
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Review in Der Nervenarzt, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lutz FrölichZentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit Mannheim, Abteilung Gerontopsychiatrie, Universität Heidelberg, Quadrat J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland.
Lucrezia HausnerZentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit Mannheim, Abteilung Gerontopsychiatrie, Universität Heidelberg, Quadrat J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland. lucrezia.hausner@zi-mannheim.de.
Central Institute of Mental Health · DEHeidelberg University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease is one the major common diseases but so far only with symptomatic treatment options. New insights define the disease as a slowly progressive continuum with very long preclinical and early symptomatic phases. Innovative molecular treatment strategies are based on an improved understanding of the molecular neurobiology of the disease, opening up a variety of therapeutic targets. For the first time, an anti-amyloid antibody has been approved in the USA in 2021 as a disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease, representing a first highly controversial step towards a molecular, cause-oriented treatment. This review presents the most advanced molecular treatment strategies and discusses the implications of the approved antibody treatment for the clinical practice. The special features of this long-term treatment with i.v. infusions in a particularly vulnerable population and a special side effect profile will impose significant challenges for implementation in the practice and will require a high degree of cooperation within the healthcare system. The future of Alzheimer's treatment with a multimodal therapeutic approach with different classes of drugs will probably reinforce these trends.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesHumanstau ProteinsAmyloid beta-Peptidestau ProteinsAmyloidAntibodyNeuroprotectionTauTreatment

Identifiers

PMID34735586
PMCPMC8648638
OpenAlexW3210765941

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