Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26993478›Full record

ArticleInteractive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery2016

Cardiac and arterial elastance and myocardial wall stress in children with pectus excavatum.

Esra Akyüz Özkan, Hashem E Khosrashahi, Halil İbrahim Serin, Bayram Metin, Mahmut Kılıç, U Aliye Geçit

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 98% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Esra Akyüz ÖzkanDepartment of Pediatrics, Bozok University Medical Faculty, Yozgat, Turkey uzdresra@gmail.com.
Hashem E KhosrashahiDepartment of Pediatric Cardiology, Bozok University Medical Faculty, Yozgat, Turkey.
Halil İbrahim SerinDepartment of Radiology, Bozok University Medical Faculty, Yozgat, Turkey.
Bayram MetinDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Bozok University Medical Faculty, Yozgat, Turkey.
Mahmut KılıçDepartment of Public Health, Bozok University Medical Faculty, Yozgat, Turkey.
U Aliye GeçitDepartment of Pediatrics, Bozok University Medical Faculty, Yozgat, Turkey.
Bozok Universitesi · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesPectus excavatum (PE) is one of the most common skeletal deformities of childhood. The study was undertaken to assess cardiac functions in children with PE.

methodsEchocardiography was performed on 32 children with PE and 40 age-matched healthy controls. The following parameters were monitored: meridional left ventricular (LV) wall stress (WSM), arterial elastance (Ea), LV elastance at end-systole derived by single beat (Ees(sb)), LV circumferential end-systolic wall stress (ESWSc), midwall shortening fraction (SFmid), predicted midwall fiber shortening for a measured fiber stress (midwall VCFc), myocardial fiber stress (MFS), LV end-systolic dimension (LVES), LV end-diastolic dimension (LVED) and end-systolic blood pressure (Pes), LV wall thickness at end-systole (hes). To assess the severity of PE, Haller index (HI) was calculated by computed tomography of the thorax.

resultsSFmid, ESWSc, midwall VCFc and MFS were lower in PE children than in controls. The degree to which the parameters SFmid, ESWSc, midwall VCFc and MFS were altered in PE children was 14.9, 27.5, 20.3 and 20.3%, respectively. The minimum HI value of children with PE was 2.00, the maximum value was 4.93 and the arithmetic mean was 2.62 ± 0.56. Of the 32 children, 14 (43.75%) demonstrated mild deformity, 15 (46.88%) showed moderate and only 3 (9.37%) had severe deformity. In children with PE, there was no statistically significant correlation between the cardiac data (ESWSc, midwall VCFc, MFS, Ea, Ees(sb), LVES, LVED, Pes, hes) and HI.

conclusionWe found ESWSc, MFS, midwall VCFc and SFmid to be lower in children with PE than in controls. We concluded that the myocardial contractility and afterload is affected in children with PE.

Indexed as

AdolescentArteriesBlood PressureCase-Control StudiesChildEchocardiographyElasticityFemaleFunnel ChestHeart VentriclesHumansMaleMyocardial ContractionMyocardiumStroke VolumeVentricular Function, LeftCardiac functionChildrenPectus excavatum

Identifiers

PMID26993478
PMCPMC4986733
OpenAlexW2313092440

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.