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ReviewPediatric health, medicine and therapeutics2018

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis - current perspectives.

Sidra K Jafri, Raman Kumar, Shahnaz H Ibrahim

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Review in Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 68 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sidra K JafriDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, shahnaz.ibrahim@aku.edu.
Raman KumarDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, shahnaz.ibrahim@aku.edu.
Shahnaz H IbrahimDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, shahnaz.ibrahim@aku.edu.
Aga Khan University Hospital · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. It usually occurs 7-10 years after measles infection. The clinical course is characterized by progressive cognitive decline and behavior changes followed by focal or generalized seizures as well as myoclonus, ataxia, visual disturbance, and later vegetative state, eventually leading to death. It is diagnosed on the basis of Dyken's criteria. There is no known cure for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis to date, but it is preventable by ensuring that an effective vaccine program for measles is made compulsory for all children younger than 5 years in endemic countries.

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Identifiers

PMID29985487
PMCPMC6027681
OpenAlexW2809777168

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