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ArticleBMJ case reports2019

Rare presentation of cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent patient.

Ahmed Khattab, Sunita Patruni, Mary L Sealey

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cryptococcal meningitis due toBMJ case reports · 2022
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  3. Meningitis Caused byJournal of investigative medicine high impact case reports
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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.

Ahmed KhattabDepartment of Internal Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9845-3427
Sunita PatruniDepartment of Internal Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Mary L SealeyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Allegheny Health Network · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryptococcal meningitis is an opportunistic infection predominantly affecting immunocompromised patients but rarely can affect the immunocompetent. We describe a 53-year-old Caucasian man who presented complaining of a 2-week history of severe bilateral eye pain and diplopia. His only known risk factor was that he lived in a horse farm and recently shot bats and pigeons in his barn. He visited an outside hospital during this time without a diagnosis established. After further deliberation, we obtained a lumbar puncture (LP) which revealed an opening pressure (OP) of 27 cm H

Indexed as

Agricultural Workers' DiseasesAmphotericin BAntifungal AgentsCryptococcus neoformansDiplopiaDrug Therapy, CombinationEye PainFluconazoleHumansImmunocompetenceMaleMeningitis, CryptococcalMeningoencephalitisMiddle AgedOpportunistic InfectionsRare DiseasesAmphotericin BAntifungal AgentsFluconazolecryptococcosiscryptococcusexposuresmeningitisvisual pathway

Identifiers

PMID31142492
PMCPMC6557354
OpenAlexW2946872289

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