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ArticleCureus2020

Acute Renal Failure Due to Bile Cast Nephropathy: An Overlooked Cause of Kidney Injury.

Muhammad B Jamshaid, Phool Iqbal, Aamir Shahzad, Zohaib Yousaf, Mohamed Mohamedali

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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
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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 39% 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, 5 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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Muhammad B JamshaidInternal Medicine, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, QAT.
Phool IqbalInternal Medicine, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, QAT.
Aamir ShahzadMedicine, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, QAT.
Zohaib YousafInternal Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
Mohamed MohamedaliMedicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
Hamad General Hospital · QADresden International University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute kidney injury in the setting of hyperbilirubinemia presents a diagnostic challenge. Hepatorenal syndrome takes precedence as a diagnosis in these cases. Bile cast nephropathy is a diagnosis that gets relatively low consideration. The most accurate diagnostic tool for bile cast nephropathy is a renal biopsy, which may present a challenge in certain clinical settings. There are no set guidelines for its management. While the exact cause of the condition is unknown, it is presumed to be secondary to multiple concurrent insults to the kidney including direct toxicity from bile acids, obstruction caused by bile casts, and systemic hypo-perfusion from vasodilation. It is believed that plasmapheresis and albumin dialysis have been associated with some recovery of renal function. We present a case of acute renal failure in a patient with obstructive jaundice, who responded to dialysis and biliary drain insertion.

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acute kidney injurybile cast nephropathyobstructive jaundice

Identifiers

PMID32944443
PMCPMC7489443
OpenAlexW3048771293

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