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ArticleObesity surgery2018

Left Gastric Artery Embolization for Weight Loss-a Dead-End Procedure.

Jodok M Fink, Verena Martini, Gabriel Seifert, Goran Marjanovic

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Article in Obesity surgery, 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
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Bariatric Artery Embolization for Obese Patients. An Up-to-Date Review.Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology · 2023
    Article
  2. Angiographic Revascularization after Bariatric Embolization in a Swine Model.Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR · 2022
    Article
  3. Rationale and Preclinical Data Supporting Bariatric Arterial Embolization.Techniques in vascular and interventional radiology · 2020
    Review
  4. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jodok M FinkCenter for Surgery, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Center for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany. jodok.fink@uniklinik-freiburg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-6650-3490
Verena MartiniCenter for Surgery, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Center for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
Gabriel SeifertCenter for Surgery, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Center for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
Goran MarjanovicCenter for Surgery, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Center for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
University of Freiburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BariatricsEmbolization, TherapeuticGastric ArteryHumansObesityObesity, MorbidWeight Loss

Identifiers

PMID30043145
OpenAlexW2884984422

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Registered trials

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