Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38791031›Full record

ArticleBiomedicines2024

Tacrolimus Treatment for TAFRO Syndrome.

Taiichiro Shirai, Shinya Ichikawa, Jun Saegusa

Abstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in Biomedicines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

3 authors.

Taiichiro ShiraiDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0231-6386
Shinya IchikawaDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.
Jun SaegusaDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7606-3743

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TAFRO syndrome is an acute systemic inflammatory disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever, reticulin myelofibrosis, renal dysfunction, and organomegaly. While its lymph node pathology is similar to that of idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD), the clinical features of TAFRO syndrome differ from those of typical iMCD, as they include a more aggressive clinical course and high mortality. However, an optimal treatment strategy for TAFRO syndrome has not yet been established, owing to a poor understanding of its pathogenesis. The limited cases we encountered suggest that tacrolimus treatment in combination with glucocorticoids may potentially be effective and well tolerated as an initial treatment, and hold promise as a glucocorticoid-sparing agent. Herein, we report an additional case and review the sparse literature available regarding TAFRO syndrome treated via tacrolimus.

Indexed as

calcineurin inhibitoridiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD)iMCD-TAFROtacrolimusTAFRO syndrome

Identifiers

PMID38791031
PMCPMC11118940

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.