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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2020

Infliximab against severe COVID-19-induced cytokine storm syndrome with organ failure-a cautionary case series.

Andreas Stallmach, Andreas Kortgen, Falk Gonnert, Sina M Coldewey, Philipp Reuken, Michael Bauer

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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55citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andreas StallmachDepartment of Internal Medicine IV (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases), Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Germany.
Andreas KortgenDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Germany.
Falk GonnertDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, SRH Wald-Klinikum Gera, Straße des Friedens 122, 07548, Gera, Germany.
Sina M ColdeweyDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Germany.
Philipp ReukenDepartment of Internal Medicine IV (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases), Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Germany.
Michael BauerDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Germany. Michael.Bauer@med.uni-jena.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1521-3514
Jena University Hospital · DESRH Wald-Klinikum Gera · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAgedCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Cytokine Release SyndromeFemaleHumansInfliximabMaleMiddle AgedMultiple Organ FailurePandemicsPneumonia, ViralSeverity of Illness IndexTreatment OutcomeInfliximab

Identifiers

PMID32680535
PMCPMC7366555
OpenAlexW3042928294

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