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Trial reportThe Journal of international medical research2019

Hyperbilirubinemia as a predictor of severity of acute appendicitis.

Masaaki Akai, Kazuhide Iwakawa, Yuichi Yasui, Yusuke Yoshida, Takuya Kato, Koji Kitada, Ryosuke Hamano, Naoyuki Tokunaga, Hideaki Miyaso, Yosuke Tsunemitsu and 3 more

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Trial report in The Journal of international medical research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Pro-adrenomedullin: a novel diagnostic biomarker of acute appendicitis.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2026
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  9. A new, simple marker for predicting complicated appendicitis in patients with normal white blood cell count indicator; LUC.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2023
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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

13 authors.

Masaaki AkaiDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0742-7272
Kazuhide IwakawaDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Yuichi YasuiDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Yusuke YoshidaDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Takuya KatoDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Koji KitadaDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Ryosuke HamanoDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Naoyuki TokunagaDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Hideaki MiyasoDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Yosuke TsunemitsuDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Shinya OtsukaDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Masaru InagakiDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.
Hiromi IwagakiDepartment of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Severity of Illness IndexAcute DiseaseAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAppendectomyAppendicitisBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansHyperbilirubinemiaMaleMiddle AgedBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinAcute appendicitisagecomplicated appendicitisC-reactive proteinfevergangrenous appendicitishyperbilirubinemiaperforated appendicitis

Identifiers

PMID31238753
PMCPMC6726791

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