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ReviewMycopathologia2013

Micafungin for Candida albicans pacemaker-associated endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature.

Carlo Tascini, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Enrico Tagliaferri, Antonello Di Paolo, Sarah Flammini, Ezio Soldati, Alessandro Leonildi, Andrea Di Cori, Francesco Menichetti

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Review in Mycopathologia, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2016
    Guideline
  2. Article
  3. Candidemia in patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2021
    Article
  4. First Reported Case ofCase reports in cardiology · 2020
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  5. Medical mycology case reports · 2019
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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

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Carlo TasciniU.O. Malattie Infettive, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.
Maria Grazia Bongiorni
Enrico Tagliaferri
Antonello Di Paolo
Sarah Flammini
Ezio Soldati
Alessandro Leonildi
Andrea Di Cori
Francesco Menichetti
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana · ITUniversity of Pisa · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report on the treatment with micafungin of a pacemaker-associated endocarditis due to Candida albicans. Antifungal therapy was able to reduce vegetation size from 5 to 1 cm making possible the transvenous removal of the device without a high risk of pulmonary embolism. Noteworthy, a high micafungin concentration was documented into the lead vegetation (10 μg/g of vegetation tissue) and this may have contributed to the striking size reduction of vegetation.

Indexed as

AgedAntifungal AgentsCandida albicansEchinocandinsEchocardiographyEndocarditisFemaleHumansLipopeptidesMicafunginMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPacemaker, ArtificialProstheses and ImplantsTreatment OutcomeAntifungal AgentsEchinocandinsLipopeptidesMicafungin

Identifiers

PMID23073824
OpenAlexW2067590544

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