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ArticleJournal of hepatology2020

SARS-CoV-2: Is the liver merely a bystander to severe disease?

Mansoor N Bangash, Jaimin M Patel, Dhruv Parekh, Nicholas Murphy, Rachel M Brown, Ahmed M Elsharkawy, Gautam Mehta, Matthew J Armstrong, Desley Neil

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Article in Journal of hepatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Histopathological findings and clinicopathologic correlation in COVID-19: a systematic review.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2021
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  8. COVID-19 and the liver: Are footprints still there?World journal of gastroenterology · 2023
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  10. COVID-19: Has the Liver Been Spared?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  14. SARS-CoV-2 infection and liver involvement.Hepatology international · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Mansoor N BangashLiver Intensive Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Liver Failure Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Acute Care Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Electronic address: mansoor.bangash@uhb.nhs.uk.
Jaimin M PatelLiver Intensive Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Liver Failure Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Acute Care Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Dhruv ParekhLiver Intensive Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Liver Failure Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Acute Care Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Nicholas MurphyLiver Intensive Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Liver Failure Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Acute Care Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Rachel M BrownBirmingham Liver Failure Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Department of Cellular Pathology, QEHB, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Ahmed M ElsharkawyBirmingham Liver Failure Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK.
Gautam MehtaInstitute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Campus, UCL, London, UK; Institute of Hepatology, Foundation for Liver Research, London, UK.
Matthew J ArmstrongBirmingham Liver Failure Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK.
Desley NeilBirmingham Liver Failure Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Department of Cellular Pathology, QEHB, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansLiverSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32502510
PMCPMC7265856

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