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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2017

Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Effectively Treated with Vitamin E as an Add-on to Corticosteroids.

Yuichi Miyashima, Michihiko Shibata, Yuichi Honma, Hidehiko Matsuoka, Masaaki Hiura, Shintaro Abe, Masaru Harada

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 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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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuichi MiyashimaThird Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
Michihiko ShibataThird Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
Yuichi HonmaThird Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
Hidehiko MatsuokaThird Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
Masaaki HiuraThird Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
Shintaro AbeThird Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
Masaru HaradaThird Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 49-year-old woman with a history of heavy alcohol drinking was admitted to our hospital due to jaundice and abdominal distention. A blood test showed leukophilia, mild hypoalbuminemia, hyperbilirubinemia, hepatobiliary injury and coagulopathy. Image studies showed an extremely enlarged fatty liver and splenomegaly. The Japan alcoholic hepatitis score and Maddrey's discriminant function were 10 and 54 points, respectively. We diagnosed her with severe alcoholic hepatitis and treated her with corticosteroids, but her liver function did not improve. We therefore administered the vitamin E product tochopheryl acetate (150 mg/day) as an add-on therapy, after which her leukophilia, liver enzymes and coagulopathy improved immediately.

Indexed as

Adrenal Cortex HormonesDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleHepatitis, AlcoholicHumansJapanMiddle AgedPrognosisSeverity of Illness IndexVitamin EAdrenal Cortex HormonesVitamin Eoxidative stresssevere alcoholic hepatitisvitamin E

Identifiers

PMID29021453
PMCPMC5790716
OpenAlexW2764029330

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