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ReviewResearch and reports in urology2023

Promising Experimental Treatments for Lupus Nephritis: Key Talking Points and Potential Opportunities.

Ana Neves, Luísa Viveiros, Veronica Venturelli, David A Isenberg

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Review in Research and reports in urology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Ana NevesInternal Medicine Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Oporto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-4471-1050
Luísa ViveirosInternal Medicine Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António, Oporto, Portugal.ORCID 0009-0005-6679-2762
Veronica VenturelliRheumatology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria S. Anna, Cona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0681-1472
David A IsenbergCentre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, UK.
Hospital de Santo António · PTHospital de São João · PTUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Ferrara · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lupus nephritis (LN) is a frequent and serious complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), impairing patients' quality of life and significantly increasing mortality. Despite optimizing the use of conventional immunosuppressants and other biological drugs, its management remains unsatisfactory. This is mainly due to the heterogeneity of SLE, but also to insufficiently effective treatment regimens and clinical trial limitations (strict criteria, low number of patients included, and side effects). Most clinical trials of new biological therapies have failed to meet their primary endpoints in both general SLE and LN, with only two biological drugs (belimumab and anifrolumab) being approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of SLE. Recently, several Phase II randomized controlled trials have evaluated the efficacy and safety of new biologics in LN, and some of them have demonstrated an improvement in clinical and laboratory measures. Multi-target therapies are also being successfully developed and encourage a belief that there will be an improvement in LN outcomes.

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biological therapieslupus nephritissystemic lupus erythematosustrial

Identifiers

PMID37456804
PMCPMC10348374
OpenAlexW4383723001

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