Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31886044›Full record

ArticleCureus2019

A Cupriavidus Pauculus Infection in a Patient with a Deep Brain Stimulation Implant.

Mahesh B Shenai, Ramsey Falconer, Sean Rogers

Abstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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. Clinical Management of SevereInfectious disease reports · 2026
    Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
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

3 authors.

Mahesh B ShenaiNeurosurgery, Inova Neuroscience Institute, Falls Church, USA.
Ramsey FalconerNeurology, Inova Neuroscience Institute, Falls Church, USA.
Sean RogersNeurology, Inova Neuroscience Institute, Falls Church, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While deep brain stimulation (DBS) is now standard therapy for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia, infections remain one of the most common perioperative complications. In this report, we describe a 58-year-old female with a history of medically refractory Parkinson's disease, who underwent magnetic resonance (MR)-guided bilateral subthalamic DBS. While the initial surgery and programming were successful, she returned in follow-up with signs of a generator pocket infection. She was taken to surgery for hardware explantation, and cultures revealed multispecies growth which included the rare Cupriavidus pauculus species. This is the first report of C. pauculus infection in conjunction with a neuromodulation device. We provide a literature review and discussion of C. pauculus, and its implications in the context of DBS surgery.

Indexed as

cupriavidus pauculusdeep brain stimulation (dbs)parkinson's diseasepostoperative infection

Identifiers

PMID31886044
PMCPMC6901375

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.