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ArticleBMJ case reports2018

Whipple's disease: a rare case of malabsorption.

Ana Lopes, Ana Filipa Santos, Maria Joana Alvarenga, Alberto Mello E Silva

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2018. 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
0.8field-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

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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Maldigestion Versus Malabsorption in the Elderly.Current gastroenterology reports · 2020
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ana LopesDepartment of Medicina Interna, Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ana Filipa SantosDepartment of Pneumologia, Hospital Egas Moniz, CHLO, Lisboa, Portugal.
Maria Joana AlvarengaDepartment of Medicina Interna, Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal.
Alberto Mello E SilvaDepartment of Medicina Interna, Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal.
Hospital de Egas Moniz · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whipple's disease is a chronic, rare, multisystemic, infectious entity, described for the first time in 1907. Its aetiological agent is the Gram-negative rod,

Indexed as

Abdominal PainAdministration, IntravenousAgedAnti-Bacterial AgentsArthralgiaBiopsyCeftriaxoneDiarrheaDuodenumHumansMaleTrimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug CombinationWhipple DiseaseAnti-Bacterial AgentsCeftriaxoneTrimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug CombinationGI bleedinginfection (gastroenterology)malabsorptionvasculitis

Identifiers

PMID29507019
PMCPMC5847899
OpenAlexW2789264018

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