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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Clinical and Virological Response to Convalescent Plasma in a Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia.

Giovanni Belcari, Alberto Conti, Alessandro Mazzoni, Maria Lanza, Paola Mazzetti, Daniele Focosi

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Guidance on the Use of Convalescent Plasma to Treat Immunocompromised Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 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

6 authors.

Giovanni BelcariDivision of Emergency Medicine, ASL Toscana Nord-Ovest, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Alberto ContiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, ASL Toscana Nord-Ovest, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Alessandro MazzoniDivision of Transfusion Medicine, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Maria LanzaNorth-Western Tuscany Blood Bank, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4677-1287
Paola MazzettiDivision of Virology, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Daniele FocosiNorth-Western Tuscany Blood Bank, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8811-195X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The burden of COVID-19 remains unchanged for immunocompromised patients who do not respond to vaccines. Unfortunately, Omicron sublineages are resistant to monoclonal antibodies authorized in Europe so far, and small chemical antivirals have contraindications and toxicities that have not been studied in these patients. We report here the successful treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia lasting for 4 months after the transfusion of COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) in a patient with severe immunosuppression due to both chronic lymphocytic leukemia and venetoclax treatment. The patient achieved a complete clinical, radiological and virological response after six transfusions (600 mL each) of high-titer CCP collected from triple-vaccinated and convalescent donors. This dramatic case adds to the mounting evidence of CCP efficacy in immunocompromised patients, provided that high-titer and large volumes are infused.

Indexed as

chronic lymphocytic leukemiaconvalescent plasmaCOVID-19immunosuppressionSARS-CoV-2venetoclax

Identifiers

PMID35888185
PMCPMC9319583
OpenAlexW4286433480

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