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ArticleJournal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives2018

Cytomegalovirus infection in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus and acute myocardial infarction - cause or causal relationship?

Anum Asif, Maria Del Pilar Morales

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Article in Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives, 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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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anum AsifDepartment of Internal Medicine, Saint Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Maria Del Pilar MoralesDepartment of Internal Medicine, Saint Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Saint Agnes Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The possible role of infectious and inflammatory states in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic disease has been a matter of debate in the literature. There are case reports of active cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection unmasking underlying dormant systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). CMV infection has also been postulated to be associated with atherosclerosis development in the coronaries. We present a unique case where a patient with newly diagnosed SLE and acute myocardial infarction was found to have high anti-CMV titers suggesting concomitant active CMV infection. A literature review has postulated strong affiliation of CMV infection with the development of coronary artery disease, an avenue which has yet to be explored further by ongoing research.

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coronary artery diseaseCytomegalovirusSLE

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PMID29915649
PMCPMC5998289
OpenAlexW2807929378

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