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ArticleThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2025

Immunosuppressants for IgG4-related disease.

Giovanni Cagnotto, Rebecka Teresia Bäcklund, Anders Bengtsson, Matteo Bruschettini, supported by Cochrane Sweden

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Article in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Giovanni CagnottoRheumatology, Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1682-8158
Rebecka Teresia BäcklundRheumatology, Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Anders BengtssonRheumatology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Matteo BruschettiniCochrane Sweden, Department of Research and Education; Paediatrics, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
supported by Cochrane Sweden

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the benefits and harms of immunosuppressants with or without corticosteroids compared to corticosteroid monotherapy for the treatment of IgG4-related disease in people 18 years or older.

Indexed as

Autoimmune DiseasesImmunoglobulin GImmunoglobulin G4-Related DiseaseImmunosuppressive AgentsAdrenal Cortex HormonesDrug Therapy, CombinationHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicAdrenal Cortex HormonesImmunoglobulin GImmunosuppressive Agents

Identifiers

PMID40838448
PMCPMC12368947

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