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ArticleCureus2020

Pleural Effusion Presenting in a Young Man With Behcet's Disease.

Hashaal F Alkhurassi, Mohammed R Ocheltree, Ahlam Alsomali, Reem A Alqunfoidi, Asmaa Saadallah

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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 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. A Contemporary Review of Behcet's Syndrome.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2021
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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.

Hashaal F AlkhurassiInternal Medicine, International Medical Center, Jeddah, SAU.
Mohammed R OcheltreeInternal Medicine, International Medical Center, Jeddah, SAU.
Ahlam AlsomaliInternal Medicine/Geriatric, International Medical Center, Jeddah, SAU.
Reem A AlqunfoidiInternal Medicine/Hematology, International Medical Center, Jeddah, SAU.
Asmaa SaadallahInternal Medicine, International Medical Center, Jeddah, SAU.
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behcet's disease (BD) is a rare multisystem chronic vasculitis of variable clinical presentation and unknown origin. Pulmonary involvement in BD is uncommon, with pleural effusion being an even rarer and difficult to diagnose manifestation. Herein, we report a challenging case of a young man who presented with recurrent pleural effusion and hepatic vein thrombosis and a recent history of papilledema with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. The patient was hospitalized for diagnostic and therapeutic thoracocentesis. Biochemistry and cytological analysis showed an exudative aspect of the collected pleural fluid with lymphocyte-dominated cytology. A multidisciplinary discussion was held, and thorough investigation was carried out to rule out malignant and infectious etiologies, among other differentials. During the second hospitalization, the patient complained of genital ulcers, which were verified to be recurrent along with oral ulcers. The diagnosis of BD was established based on the International Classification Criteria for BD, and the symptoms improved significantly upon using colchicine and immune-suppressive drugs.

Indexed as

behcet’s syndromehepatic vein thrombosisrare cause of pleural effusion

Identifiers

PMID32923298
PMCPMC7478535
OpenAlexW3083072852

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