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Trial reportViruses2022

Interferon-β Suppresses Transcriptionally Active Parvovirus B19 Infection in Viral Cardiomyopathy: A Subgroup Analysis of the BICC-Trial.

Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Claus-Thomas Bock, Ganna Aleshcheva, Christian Baumeier, Wolfgang Poller, Felicitas Escher

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Viruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

6 authors.

Heinz-Peter SchultheissInstitute of Cardiac Diagnostics and Therapy, IKDT GmbH, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Claus-Thomas BockDivision of Viral Gastroenteritis and Hepatitis Pathogens and Enteroviruses, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2773-486X
Ganna AleshchevaInstitute of Cardiac Diagnostics and Therapy, IKDT GmbH, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Christian BaumeierInstitute of Cardiac Diagnostics and Therapy, IKDT GmbH, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Wolfgang PollerDepartment of Cardiology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universitaet Berlin and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Felicitas EscherInstitute of Cardiac Diagnostics and Therapy, IKDT GmbH, 12203 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0678-5681

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human parvovirus B19 (B19V) is the predominant virus currently detected in endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs). Recent findings indicate that, specifically, transcriptionally active B19V with detectable viral RNA is of prognostic relevance in inflammatory viral cardiomyopathy. We aimed to evaluate B19V replicative status (viral RNA) and beneficial effects in a sub-collective of the prospective randomized placebo-controlled phase II multi-center BICC-Trial (Betaferon In Chronic Viral Cardiomyopathy) after interferon beta-1b (IFN-β) treatment. EMBs of

Indexed as

AdultAgedCardiomyopathiesEndothelium, VascularFemaleHumansInterferon-betaMaleMiddle AgedParvoviridae InfectionsParvovirus B19, HumanProspective StudiesRetrospective StudiesStroke VolumeVentricular Function, LeftInterferon-betahuman parvovirus B19interferon beta-1btranscriptional activity

Identifiers

PMID35216037
PMCPMC8875228

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