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ReviewJournal of blood medicine2020

Current Perspectives on Diagnostic Assays and Anti-PF4 Antibodies for the Diagnosis of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia.

Kamal K Sahu, Vishal Jindal, Joseph Anderson, Ahmad D Siddiqui, Ishmael A Jaiyesimi

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Review in Journal of blood medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kamal K SahuHemato-oncology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA 01608, USA.
Vishal JindalDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9265-0251
Joseph AndersonDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA.
Ahmad D SiddiquiHemato-oncology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA 01608, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2574-540X
Ishmael A JaiyesimiDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA.
Oakland University · USSaint Vincent Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a recognized clinical entity in patients receiving unfractionated heparin and low-molecular weight heparin. Currently, diagnosing HIT includes the combination of a physician's clinical suspicion based on a clinical scoring system and a series of laboratory tests. In the present article, we discuss challenges in suspecting and diagnosing HIT in consideration of the turnaround time of available tests and recent advances in techniques and methodologies of newer immunoassays and functional assays.

Indexed as

functional assayheparin-induced thrombocytopeniaHIPA testimmunoassaylaboratory diagnosisplatelet factor 4plateletsserotonin-release assay

Identifiers

PMID32884385
PMCPMC7443028
OpenAlexW3049010425

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