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ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2018

Corticosteroids for shunted previously healthy patients with non-HIV cryptococcal meningoencephalitis.

Gautam U Mehta, Anil A Panackal, Roger Murayi, John E Bennett, Peter R Williamson, Prashant Chittiboina

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Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
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  4. Article
  5. Review
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  9. A Multicenter, Longitudinal Cohort Study of Cryptococcosis in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-negative People in the United States.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020
    Article
  10. Observational
  11. Clinical Aspects of Immune Damage in Cryptococcosis.Current fungal infection reports · 2019
    Article
  12. Audiologic and Otologic Complications of Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis in Non-HIV Previously Healthy Patients.Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology · 2019
    Observational
  13. Review
  14. Fungal infections in pediatric neurosurgery.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018
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  15. Review
  16. CD4mBio · 2017
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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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gautam U MehtaSurgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Anil A PanackalLaboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Roger MurayiSurgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
John E BennettLaboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Peter R WilliamsonLaboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Prashant ChittiboinaSurgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · USUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · US

Funding

Improved Diagnosis and Treatment of Cushing's DiseaseZIANS003150 · NINDS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI CHITTIBOINA, PRASHANT · 2015 to 2025
$13.7M
Molecular Pathobiology of Cryptococcus neoformansZIAAI001123 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI WILLIAMSON, PETER · 2010 to 2025
$10.4M
Translational Research: Host-Pathogen Interactions in Patient Fungal DiseasesZIAAI001124 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI WILLIAMSON, PETER · 2010 to 2025
$8.8M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 NS999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA NS003150
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Ventriculoperitoneal ShuntAdultAgedDexamethasoneFemaleGlucocorticoidsHumansIntracranial HypertensionMaleMeningitis, CryptococcalMeningoencephalitisMethylprednisoloneMiddle AgedPrednisoneSystemic Inflammatory Response SyndromeTreatment OutcomeDexamethasoneGlucocorticoidsMethylprednisolonePrednisoneINFECTIOUS DISEASESSTEROIDS

Identifiers

PMID28550070
PMCPMC5702587
OpenAlexW2619787131

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Registered trials

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