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ArticleBMJ case reports2018

An aggressive form of

Naina McCann, Mohamad Fahed Barakat, Frank Schafer

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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 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 46% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. BMJ case reports · 2021
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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Naina McCannDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University College London Hospital, London, UK.
Mohamad Fahed BarakatSchool of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
Frank SchaferDepartment of Cardiology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
King's College London · GBMcCann Associates (United States) · USRoyal Free London NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present the case of a 49-year-old man with a bicuspid aortic valve who presented to the emergency department with limb weakness and a fever. Blood tests revealed a fulminant septic process with

Indexed as

AbscessAnemiaAnti-Bacterial AgentsAortaAortic ValveAscitesBacteremiaBicuspid Aortic Valve DiseaseDiscitisEchocardiographyEchocardiography, Three-DimensionalEndocarditis, BacterialEpidural AbscessHaemophilus InfectionsHaemophilus parainfluenzaeHeart Valve DiseasesAnti-Bacterial Agentscardiothoracic surgerycardiovascular medicineinfectious diseasesvalvar diseases

Identifiers

PMID29866672
PMCPMC5990101
OpenAlexW2807600936

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.