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ReviewCureus2019

Helicobacter pylori: An Underrated Cause of Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura. A Comprehensive Review.

Muhammad A Zain, Fahad Zafar, Ammar Ashfaq, Abdur R Jamil, Asrar Ahmad

Open access · diamondAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cureus, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Update on the pathogenesis and clinical management ofWorld journal of gastrointestinal pathophysiology · 2025
    Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Old and New Aspects ofChildren (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Review
  5. Frontiers in immunology · 2022
    Review
  6. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura secondary toProceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2022
    Article
  7. Effect ofBlood research · 2021
    Article
  8. Article
  9. AIMS microbiology · 2021
    Review
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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Muhammad A ZainInternal Medicine, Sheikh Zayed Medical College and Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan, PAK.
Fahad ZafarInternal Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA.
Ammar AshfaqInternal Medicine, Abington Hospital - Jefferson Health, Abington, USA.
Abdur R JamilInternal Medicine, Central Michigan University, Saginaw, USA.
Asrar AhmadInternal Medicine, Abington Hospital - Jefferson Health, Abington, USA.
Abington Memorial Hospital · USMaimonides Medical Center · USSaginaw Valley State University · USShaikh Zayed Medical College and Hospital · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is the autoimmune-mediated destruction of platelets. ITP is a diagnosis of exclusion after other identifiable etiologies have been ruled out. After the first report by Gasbarrini et al. (1998) showing rising platelet counts in ITP patients following

Indexed as

helicobacter pylori infectionh. pyloriimmune thrombocytopeniaimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (itp)itp

Identifiers

PMID31695974
PMCPMC6820323
OpenAlexW2970839779

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Registered trials

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