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ArticleJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2021

Impact of optimized PET imaging conditions on

Ismaheel O Lawal, Kgomotso G Mokoala, Gbenga O Popoola, Thabo Lengana, Alfred O Ankrah, Anton C Stoltz, Mike M Sathekge

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Article in Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ismaheel O LawalDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Private Bag X169, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa.
Kgomotso G MokoalaDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Private Bag X169, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa.
Gbenga O PopoolaDepartment of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Thabo LenganaDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Private Bag X169, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa.
Alfred O AnkrahDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Private Bag X169, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa.
Anton C StoltzInfectious Disease Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Mike M SathekgeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Private Bag X169, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa. mike.sathekge@up.ac.za.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe cardiovascular committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) recently published recommendations on imaging conditions to be observed during METHODS AND

resultsFifty-seven patients were prospectively recruited to undergo an early

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PMID31388966

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