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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2018

Atrophy of the Vagus Nerve in Parkinson's Disease Revealed by High-Resolution Ultrasonography.

Uwe Walter, Panagiota Tsiberidou, Maxi Kersten, Alexander Storch, Matthias Löhle

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Left Vagus Stimulation Modulates Contralateral Subthalamic β Power Improving the Gait in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2024
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  6. Correlation between right vagus nerve cross-sectional area and abnormal heart rate with deep breathing in Parkinson's disease.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2026
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  14. Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Uwe WalterDepartment of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
Panagiota TsiberidouDepartment of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
Maxi KerstenDepartment of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
Alexander StorchDepartment of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
Matthias LöhleDepartment of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
University of Rostock · DEGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

accessory nervenon-motor symptomsParkinson's diseasephrenic nerveultrasoundvagus nerve

Identifiers

PMID30319534
PMCPMC6170613
OpenAlexW2894546886

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