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ArticleClinical case reports2020

Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins?

Katharina Poustka, Sabine Pollanz-Petrovic, Elisabeth Lindeck-Pozza, Josef Finsterer

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 55% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katharina PoustkaDepartment of Neurology Kaiser Franz Josef Spital Vienna Austria.
Sabine Pollanz-PetrovicDepartment of Neurology Kaiser Franz Josef Spital Vienna Austria.
Elisabeth Lindeck-PozzaDepartment of Neurology Kaiser Franz Josef Spital Vienna Austria.
Josef FinstererKrankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung Messerli Institute Vienna Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2839-7305
Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital · ATKrankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung der Stadt Wien · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 61 year old man with facial diplegia, quadruparesis, tongue atrophy/fasciculations, bulbar speech, muscle weakness/wasting, hypotonia, tremor, dysdiadochokinesia, absent tendon reflexes, fasciculations, and gynecomastia, received immunoglobulins for suspected immune-neuropathy with limited benefit. After reconsideration, Kennedy disease was diagnosed upon 44 CAG repeats in

Indexed as

immunoglobulinsKennedy diseasemotor neuron diseasephenotypepolyglutamine diseasepolyneuropathy

Identifiers

PMID32695362
PMCPMC7364100
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