Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29018016›Full record

ArticleBMJ case reports2017

Successful treatment of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus purulent myopericarditis.

Henry DeYoung, Adam Bloom, Sally Tamayo

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Clinical Presentation and Management of Methicillin-ResistantJournal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2022
    Review
  2. Article
  3. Methicillin-resistantIDCases · 2019
    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

3 authors.

Henry DeYoungDepartment of Aviation Medicine, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA.
Adam BloomDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA.
Sally TamayoDepartment of Cardiology, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A previously healthy 48-year-old active duty man, who had been treated for an elbow abscess 3 weeks earlier, presented to an emergency department in Bahrain with tachycardia, pericardial friction rub and jugular venous distention. Cardiac tamponade was confirmed on transthoracic echocardiogram and he was taken for emergent pericardiocentesis. Pericardial fluid cultures grew community-acquired methicillin-resistant

Indexed as

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsCeftarolineCephalosporinsDrug Hypersensitivity SyndromeDrug Therapy, CombinationHumansMaleMiddle AgedMyocarditisPericardial EffusionPericardiectomyPericarditisPostoperative ComplicationsStaphylococcal InfectionsSteroidsAnti-Bacterial AgentsCeftarolineCephalosporinsSteroidsVancomycincardiovascular systeminfections

Identifiers

PMID29018016
PMCPMC5652653

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