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ArticleBMJ case reports2016

From suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to confirmed histoplasma meningitis.

Vivek Batra, Armen Khararjian, Joseph Wheat, Sean X Zhang, Barbara Crain, Alexander Baras

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Central Nervous System Infection withJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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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.

Vivek BatraDepartment of Community Physicians, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Maryland, USA.
Armen KhararjianDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Joseph Wheat
Sean X Zhang
Barbara CrainDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Alexander BarasDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 77-year-old man with chronic obstructive lung disease who was on steroids, presented to the hospital after a fall with subacute headaches and ataxia. During the patient's hospital course, his clinical condition deteriorated with myoclonic jerks, fevers and severe encephalopathy. An extensive workup, including EEG, brain MRI and lumbar puncture, revealed possible Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Unfortunately, the patient failed to improve and died 12 days after admission. A brain-only autopsy revealed he had acute histoplasma meningitis with patchy superficial cerebritis.

Indexed as

Creutzfeldt-Jakob SyndromeAgedAutopsyBrainDiagnosis, DifferentialFatal OutcomeHistoplasmaHistoplasmosisHumansMaleMeningitis

Identifiers

PMID27389723
PMCPMC4956983
OpenAlexW2465797784

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