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ArticleCureus2019

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Secondary to Exogenous Triiodothyronine Use in a Young Non-athlete Weightlifter.

Ghassan Daher, Ihab Hassanieh, Nikhil Malhotra, Lisa Alderson

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

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Poisoning with Thyroid Hormones Used Illegally-Systematic Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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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.

Ghassan DaherInternal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA.
Ihab HassaniehInternal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA.
Nikhil MalhotraInternal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA.
Lisa AldersonCardiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure (HF) is a common cardiovascular disorder and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. HF is usually detected in the elderly population, in particular, in patients with coronary artery disease, valvular disease, myocarditis, and hypertension. Acute decompensated HF in previously healthy young patients should raise suspicion for other rare etiologies. We report a case of a 28-year-old male presenting with acutely decompensated HF secondary to performance-enhancing drugs (PED). The use of non-regulated, non-approved PED has become a world-wide health problem with patients often unaware of the potentially serious and fatal side effects.

Indexed as

cardiogenic shockclenbuterolheart failureperformance enhancing drugstriiodothyronine

Identifiers

PMID31799099
PMCPMC6863580

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