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ArticleInternational journal of cardiology2015

Amiodarone and Trypanosoma cruzi parasitemia in patients with Chagas disease.

Andre A L Carmo, Manoel O C Rocha, Jose L P Silva, Barbara M Ianni, Fabio Fernandes, Ester C Sabino, Antonio L P Ribeiro

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Article in International journal of cardiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing 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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Observational
  2. Review
  3. Repurposing of Amiodarone for treatment of muscle phase of experimental trichinellosis spiralis.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2025
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  4. Review
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  7. A Combination of Itraconazole and Amiodarone Is Highly Effective againstThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Developments in the management of Chagas cardiomyopathy.Expert review of cardiovascular therapy · 2015
    Review
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

7 authors.

Andre A L CarmoHospital das Clínicas and Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Manoel O C RochaHospital das Clínicas and Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Jose L P SilvaDepartment of Statistics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Barbara M IanniCardiomyopathy Unit of the Heart Institute (InCor), da Faculdade de Medicina, da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Fabio FernandesCardiomyopathy Unit of the Heart Institute (InCor), da Faculdade de Medicina, da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ester C SabinoDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Antonio L P RibeiroHospital das Clínicas and Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address: tom@hc.ufmg.br.

Funding

Sao Paulo-Minas Gerais Tropical Medicine Research Center for Chagas Disease Biomarker DiscoveryU19AI098461 · NIAID · FUNDACAO FACULDADE DE MEDICINA · PI RIBEIRO, ANTONIO LUIZ PINHO · 2017 to 2021
$2.1M
Sao Paulo- MInas Gerais Neglected Tropical Disease Research Center for BiomarkerP50AI098461 · NIAID · FUNDACAO FACULDADE DE MEDICINA · PI SABINO, ESTER CERDEIRA · 2012 to 2016
$1.5M
NIAID NIH HHS 1P50AI098461-01NIAID NIH HHS P50 AI098461NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI098461
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAmiodaroneAnti-Arrhythmia AgentsChagas DiseaseFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedParasite LoadParasitemiaRetrospective StudiesTrypanosoma cruziVentricular FibrillationAmiodaroneAnti-Arrhythmia AgentsAmiodaroneChagas diseaseParasitemia

Identifiers

PMID25897900
PMCPMC4446230

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