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Roxithromycin monotherapy inducing a partial response in a patient with myeloma: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 2018
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Title
Roxithromycin monotherapy inducing a partial response in a patient with myeloma: a case report
Published in
Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13256-018-1636-9
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Authors

Kern Y. Chai, Anna L. Byrne, Ian M. Morison

Abstract

Clarithromycin is an efficacious treatment for myeloma in combination with other anti-myeloma therapy but not as monotherapy. To date, all studies have focused on a clarithromycin-specific effect rather than a class effect (macrolide) and there is no information on the activity of roxithromycin in myeloma. Here we report an untreated 86-year-old New Zealand European white man with IgA myeloma whose paraprotein decreased by 57%, consistent with a partial response, after a course of roxithromycin for pneumonia. His paraprotein reduced from 46 to 20 g/L while his hemoglobin improved from 97 to 123 g/L after 1 month. Additional investigations should be considered to elucidate the therapeutic effect of roxithromycin in myeloma.

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Unknown 5 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 2 40%
Professor 1 20%
Unknown 2 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 60%
Unknown 2 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 October 2018.
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#1,763,903
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#37,679
of 330,769 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#4
of 78 outputs
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