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ReviewJournal of critical care2016

Life after acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia: a case report of a patient 30 months after diagnosis and review of the literature.

Catherine Kuza, Theofilos Matheos, Deirdre Kathman, Stephen O Heard

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Review in Journal of critical care, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Catherine KuzaDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 North Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA. Electronic address: catherine.kuza@gmail.com.
Theofilos MatheosDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 North Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
Deirdre KathmanDepartment of Medicine (Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine), University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 North Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
Stephen O HeardDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 North Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia (AFOP) is a rare histologic interstitial pneumonia pattern recently described in the literature with fewer than 120 cases published. AFOP is often difficult to diagnose and may be mistaken for other pulmonary disorders such as interstitial pneumonias or pneumonitides. Patients often present with vague symptoms of cough, dyspnea, hemoptysis, fatigue, and occasionally respiratory failure. Radiological findings show diffuse patchy opacities and ground glass appearance of the lungs. On histologic examination, intra-alveolar fibrin balls are observed. We discuss a case of a man who presented with hemoptysis and dyspnea and whose open lung biopsy revealed AFOP. We will describe the presentation, diagnosis, and post-discharge course, and review the current literature. There are only 4 cases which have reported the patients' course of disease after 1 year, the longest being 2 years. To our knowledge, this is the only case of AFOP in the literature that describes the course of a patient more than 2 years after the diagnosis of AFOP, and is the most comprehensive review of the current literature.

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AsbestosGlassOccupational ExposureAntibodies, AntinuclearConnective Tissue DiseasesHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsLungLung Diseases, InterstitialLung TransplantationMaleMiddle AgedOxygen Inhalation TherapyTomography, X-Ray ComputedWaiting ListsAntibodies, AntinuclearAsbestosfiberglassImmunosuppressive AgentsAcute fibrinous and organizing pneumoniaInterstitial lung diseases

Identifiers

PMID26578116
PMCPMC7126573
OpenAlexW2216831364

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