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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2023

Disseminated Cryptococcosis Following Eculizumab Therapy: Insight Into Pathogenesis.

Olivier Lortholary, Carine El-Sissy, Jérémie Leporrier, Sarah Sze Wah Wong, Eric Dannaoui, Véronique Fremeaux-Bacchi, Vishukumar Aimanianda

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2023. 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.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Olivier LortholaryDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Centre d'Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-8060
Carine El-SissyInserm UMRS1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Team "Inflammation, Complement and Cancer," Paris, France.
Jérémie LeporrierDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Centre d'Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Sarah Sze Wah WongInstitut Pasteur, Molecular Mycology Unit, Department of Mycology, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Eric DannaouiParasitology-Mycology Unit, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Véronique Fremeaux-BacchiInserm UMRS1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Team "Inflammation, Complement and Cancer," Paris, France.
Vishukumar AimaniandaInstitut Pasteur, Molecular Mycology Unit, Department of Mycology, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades · FRInserm · FRInstitut Pasteur · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eculizumab, a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody (mAb), is used for the treatment of patients (both adults and children) with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome. This mAb binds to complement protein 5 (C5), thereby inhibiting its cleavage. On the other hand, one of the C5 cleavage products, C5a, is a potent anaphylatoxin with proinflammatory properties, involved in antimicrobial surveillance. Administration of eculizumab has been reported to make patients more susceptible to infection by encapsulated bacteria. Here, we are reporting an adult case of disseminated infection due to the encapsulated yeast

Indexed as

aHUSatypical hemolytic uremic syndromecomplement component c5cryptococcosiseculizumabpathogenesis

Identifiers

PMID37065989
PMCPMC10099467
OpenAlexW4360835566

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