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ArticleCureus2020

Severe Pulmonary Hypertension and Cholestatic Liver Injury: Two Rare Manifestations of Graves' Disease.

Bisrat Nigussie, Fuad I Abaleka, Tigist Gemechu, Maham Suhail, Sukaina Alikhan

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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 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bisrat NigussieInternal Medicine, Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, USA.
Fuad I AbalekaInternal Medicine, Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, USA.
Tigist GemechuMedicine, Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, USA.
Maham SuhailInternal Medicine, Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, USA.
Sukaina AlikhanMedicine, Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, USA.
Richmond University Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Graves' disease is seen in the majority of patients diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. The usual symptoms of Graves' disease are tremors, weight loss, sweating, exophthalmos, pretibial edema, anxiety, and palpitations. However, there could be unusual manifestations such as hepatic failure and pulmonary hypertension. We present the case of a 31-year-old female with Graves' disease with these two rare complications, which resolved with medical management in about three months. To the author's knowledge, this is the second case of a patient with this type of presentation.

Indexed as

cholestatic liver injurygraves' diseasehyperbilirubinemiahyperthyroidismpulmonary hypertension

Identifiers

PMID32699728
PMCPMC7370659
OpenAlexW3043073858

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