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ArticleCJC open2019

Infected Rastelli Conduit in an Immunocompromised Patient That Was Not Visible on Transthoracic Echocardiogram.

Simon Parlow, Paul Beamish, Isabelle Desjardins, John Fulop, Gyaandeo Maharajh, Lana Castellucci

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Article in CJC open, 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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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. Late complications of the Rastelli procedure - infective endocarditis and homograft stenosis: A case report.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2026
    Article
  2. Review
  3. Pediatric Infective Endocarditis: A Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022
    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

6 authors.

Simon ParlowDepartment of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Paul BeamishDepartment of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Isabelle DesjardinsDepartment of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
John FulopDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Gyaandeo MaharajhDivision of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Lana CastellucciDivision of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An 18-year-old man with a history of right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit implantation for repair of congenital heart disease and vasculitis requiring chronic immunosuppression with azathioprine presented to the University of Ottawa with bacteremia. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed no abnormalities at the site of the conduit. A fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scan was subsequently obtained that demonstrated an infected right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit. It is important to remember that, as is true for classic valve endocarditis, an unremarkable transthoracic echocardiogram does not rule out an infected conduit in this population, and nuclear imaging may have important diagnostic utility.

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PMID32159127
PMCPMC7063622

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