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ArticleIDCases2019

Intraventricular empyema caused by

Divyansh Bajaj, Ankit Agrawal, Darshan Gandhi, Reba Varughese, Sonali Gupta, David Regelmann

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Article in IDCases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Report of Primary Pyogenic Ventriculitis Caused byInfection and drug resistance · 2025
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  3. A Rare Case of Primary Pyogenic Ventriculitis in a Patient with Community-acquired Meningitis.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2022
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  7. Primary pyogenic ventriculitis caused by Streptococcal pneumoniae in adults.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2019
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Divyansh BajajDepartment of Internal Medicine, Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine/Saint Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport, CT, USA.
Ankit AgrawalDepartment of Internal Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Darshan GandhiDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine/Saint Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport, CT, USA.
Reba VarugheseDepartment of Internal Medicine, Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine/Saint Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport, CT, USA.
Sonali GuptaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine/Saint Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport, CT, USA.
David RegelmannDepartment of Internal Medicine, Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine/Saint Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport, CT, USA.
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center · USRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Meningitis is defined as an inflammation of the protective covering of brain and spinal cord collectively called as meninges. Meningeal infection can be complicated by intraventricular empyema. There are 9 cases of intraventricular empyema described in the literature out of which only three are described to be caused by

Indexed as

Intraventricular empyemaNeisseria meningitidisVentriculitis

Identifiers

PMID30788218
PMCPMC6369236
OpenAlexW2911267147

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