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ArticleCureus2020

Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis Presenting As Unexplained Chronic Abdominal Pain.

Salem Gaballa, Kyaw M Hlaing, Nathan Mahler, Richard Hargrove, Marigny Roberts

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Article in Cureus, 2020. 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
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Predictive factors for glucocorticoid therapy in children with eosinophilic gastroenteritis.Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2021
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Salem GaballaInternal Medicine, LewisGale Medical Center, Salem, USA.
Kyaw M HlaingInternal Medicine, LewisGale Medical Center, Salem, USA.
Nathan MahlerInternal Medicine, LewisGale Medical Center, Salem, USA.
Richard HargroveInternal Medicine, LewisGale Medical Center, Salem, USA.
Marigny RobertsPathology, LewisGale Medical Center, Salem, USA.
Lewis Gale Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 27-year-old Caucasian female was hospitalized three times over a four-month period for recurrent, intermittent abdominal pain associated with nausea and diarrhea. No signs or symptoms of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding were present. A stool occult blood test and stool enteric pathogen tests were negative. A complete blood count (CBC) revealed a peripheral blood eosinophil count of 1080 cells /µL without any inflammatory reaction. An upper endoscopy showed grossly normal-appearing esophageal and duodenal mucosa; however, a gastric mucosal biopsy showed an eosinophil infiltration of ≥20 eosinophils/high power field (HPF). Based on these findings, she was diagnosed with eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE). A definitive diagnosis of EGE should be confirmed with both an analysis of gastrointestinal mucosal biopsy and an elevated peripheral blood eosinophil count. Specifically, histological evaluation of the mucosal tissue must show an eosinophilic infiltration rate of 20 eosinophils/HPF. The diagnosis should be followed by an extensive review of the patient's allergic disease history.

Indexed as

chronic abdominal painegg allergyendoscopyeosinophilic gastroenteritiseosinophilic mucosal infiltrationgit endoscopy

Identifiers

PMID32685309
PMCPMC7364395
OpenAlexW3035103817

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