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ArticleClinical case reports2020

Schistosomiasis and liver disease: Learning from the past to understand the present.

Eman Abdelghani, Rommel Zerpa, Gloria Iliescu, Carmen P Escalante

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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 9 papers.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

Eman AbdelghaniDivision of Internal Medicine Department of General Internal Medicine The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
Rommel ZerpaDivision of Internal Medicine Department of General Internal Medicine The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
Gloria IliescuDivision of Internal Medicine Department of General Internal Medicine The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
Carmen P EscalanteDivision of Internal Medicine Department of General Internal Medicine The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5465-8594

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To diagnose schistosomiasis, past medical history review should include recent travel to or from an endemic area, a history of elevated liver enzymes as well as contact with contaminated sources of water or farm animals.

Indexed as

gastroenterologyhepatologyinfectious diseasesliver diseasesschistosomaschistosomiasis

Identifiers

PMID32884787
PMCPMC7455423

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