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ReviewCurrent treatment options in cardiovascular medicine2018

Pericardial Disease in Cancer Patients.

Arjun K Ghosh, Tom Crake, Charlotte Manisty, Mark Westwood

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Review in Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arjun K GhoshCardio-Oncology Service, Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, Barts NHS Health Trust, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE, UK. arjun.ghosh@bartshealth.nhs.uk.
Tom CrakeCardio-Oncology Service, Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, Barts NHS Health Trust, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE, UK.
Charlotte ManistyCardio-Oncology Service, Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, Barts NHS Health Trust, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE, UK.
Mark WestwoodCardio-Oncology Service, Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, Barts NHS Health Trust, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE, UK.
Barts Health NHS Trust · GBSt Bartholomew's Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo understand the variety of conditions in which the pericardium may be affected in cancer patients. RECENT

findingsCancer may affect the pericardium directly (primary cancer; uncommon) or through metastases (commoner). Cancer treatment (chemotherapy and radiotherapy) may affect the pericardium leading to pericarditis and myopericarditis. Pericardial effusions, tamponade and constrictive pericarditis are complications that can also occur. A variety of techniques (predominantly cardiac imaging related) are used to make the diagnosis with the treatment strategy dependent on whether the pericardial disease is due to cancer or as a result of cancer treatment. A variety of pericardial diseases may be caused by cancer and cancer treatment. Determining the aetiology and providing effective treatment can often be challenging.

Indexed as

CancerCardio-oncologyPericardium

Identifiers

PMID29936603
PMCPMC6015600
OpenAlexW2810795586

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