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ReviewBioMed research international2016

Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: A Current View on the Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.

Jan Krejci, Dalibor Mlejnek, Dana Sochorova, Petr Nemec

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Review in BioMed research international, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 64 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.

Jan KrejciDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, St. Anne's University Hospital-International Clinical Research Center, Pekarska 53, 65691 Brno, Czech Republic; International Clinical Research Center and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Dalibor MlejnekDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, St. Anne's University Hospital-International Clinical Research Center, Pekarska 53, 65691 Brno, Czech Republic; International Clinical Research Center and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Dana SochorovaInternational Clinical Research Center and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Petr NemecInternational Clinical Research Center and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Brno, Czech Republic.
Masaryk University · CZCentrum kardiovaskulární a transplantační chirurgie · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory cardiomyopathy is defined as inflammation of the heart muscle associated with impaired function of the myocardium. In our region, its etiology is most often viral. Viral infection is a possible trigger of immune and autoimmune mechanisms which contributed to the damage of myocardial function. Myocarditis is considered the most common cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. Typical manifestation of this disease is heart failure, chest pain, or arrhythmias. The most important noninvasive diagnostic method is magnetic resonance imaging, but the gold standard of diagnostics is invasive examination, endomyocardial biopsy. In a significant proportion of cases with impaired left ventricular systolic function, recovery occurs spontaneously in several weeks and therefore it is appropriate to postpone critical therapeutic decisions about 3-6 months after start of the treatment. Therapy is based on standard heart failure treatment; immunosuppressive or antimicrobial treatment may be considered in some cases depending on the results of endomyocardial biopsy. If severe dysfunction of the left ventricle persists, device therapy may be needed.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsBiopsyCardiac Resynchronization TherapyCardiomyopathiesEvidence-Based MedicineHumansMyocarditisTreatment OutcomeAnti-Bacterial AgentsAnti-Inflammatory Agents

Identifiers

PMID27382566
PMCPMC4921131
OpenAlexW2412365798

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