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ReviewMedicine2015

GAD Antibodies as Key Link Between Chronic Intestinal Pseudoobstruction, Autonomic Neuropathy, and Limb Stiffness in a Nondiabetic Patient: A CARE-Compliant Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Andrea Maier, Vera Mannartz, Hermann Wasmuth, Christian Trautwein, Ulf-Peter Neumann, Joachim Weis, Joachim Grosse, Matthias Fuest, Max-J Hilz, Joerg B Schulz and 1 more

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Review in Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Post-ganglionic autonomic neuropathy associated with anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2017
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  6. ELISA Test for Analyzing of Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes Autoantibodies (GAD and IA2) in Children and Adolescents.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrea MaierFrom the Department of Neurology (AM, VM, JBS, CH), University Hospital RWTH Aachen,; Department of Medicine (HW), Luisenhospital Aachen; Department of Gastroenterology (CT), University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Department of Visceral Surgery (U-PN), University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Institute of Neuropathology (JW), University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Department of Urology (JG), University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Department of Ophthalmology (MF), University Hospital RWTH Aachen); and Department of Neurology (M-JH), Erlangen University Hospital, Germany.
Vera Mannartz
Hermann Wasmuth
Christian Trautwein
Ulf-Peter Neumann
Joachim Weis
Joachim Grosse
Matthias Fuest
Max-J Hilz
Joerg B Schulz
Christina Haubrich
FH Aachen · DERWTH Aachen University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction (CIP) can be a severe burden and even a life-threatening disorder. Typically, several years of uncertainty are passing before diagnosis. We are reporting the case of a young woman with a decade of severe, progressive gastrointestinal dysmotility. Unusually, she had also developed an autonomic neuropathy, and a stiff limb syndrome.In addition to achalasia and CIP the young woman also developed neuropathic symptoms: orthostatic intolerance, urinary retention, a Horner syndrome, and lower limb stiffness. Careful interdisciplinary diagnostics excluded underlying infectious, rheumatoid, metabolic or tumorous diseases.The detection of GAD (glutamic acid decarboxylase) antibodies, however, seemed to link CIP, autonomic neuropathy, and limb stiffness and pointed at an autoimmune origin of our patient's complaints. This was supported by the positive effects of intravenous immunoglobulin. In response to this therapy the body weight had stabilized, orthostatic tolerance had improved, and limb stiffness was reversed.The case suggested that GAD antibodies should be considered in CIP also in nondiabetic patients. This may support earlier diagnosis and immunotherapy.

Indexed as

AdultAntibodiesAutonomic Nervous System DiseasesChronic DiseaseFemaleGlutamate DecarboxylaseHumansIntestinal Pseudo-ObstructionMuscle RigidityAntibodiesGlutamate Decarboxylase

Identifiers

PMID26252289
PMCPMC4616576
OpenAlexW2323811559

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