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ArticleClinical case reports2019

Purulent bacterial pericarditis from

Adam Kaye, Gregory A Peters, Joshua W Joseph, Matthew L Wong

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam KayeDepartment of Emergency Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston Massachusetts.
Gregory A PetersDepartment of Emergency Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston Massachusetts.
Joshua W JosephDepartment of Emergency Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston Massachusetts.
Matthew L WongDepartment of Emergency Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston Massachusetts.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5291-7318
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purulent pericarditis is a rare condition in the modern antibiotic era. The diagnosis should be suspected in patients with pericardial effusions and radiographic and laboratory investigations consistent with infection. Pericardial fluid culture is the gold standard. Early source control, in addition to antibiotics, is a cornerstone of treatment.

Indexed as

echocardiographyinfectionpericarditistamponade

Identifiers

PMID31360479
PMCPMC6637356
OpenAlexW2947263100

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