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ArticleCureus2020

Strongyloides Stercoralis Infection: A Rare Cause of Acute Abdomen.

Ashley R Gao, Abhishek Matta

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In one paragraph

Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact, top 89% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ashley R GaoInternal Medicine, University of North Dakota, Fargo, USA.
Abhishek MattaInternal Medicine, University of North Dakota, Fargo, USA.
University of North Dakota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 30-year-old female presented to the emergency department with severe recurrent abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and a 50-pound unintentional weight loss within the past few years. After emigrating from Liberia to the United States in 2005, the patient was evaluated for similar complaints in the past and underwent exploratory laparotomies and partial small bowel resection with no significant improvement in symptoms. Computerized tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed intestinal inflammation and mesenteric edema. Small intestinal enteroscopy was unremarkable. Small intestinal biopsy showed larval round worms in intestinal crypts. Stool ova and parasite exam revealed larval forms of Strongyloides stercoralis. She was treated with ivermectin 200 mcg/kg daily for two days and recommended to return in four weeks to repeat stool exam to ensure complete parasite clearance.

Indexed as

acute abdomenstool ova and parasite examstrongyloides stercoralisstrongyloidiasis

Identifiers

PMID33329966
PMCPMC7734700
OpenAlexW3103272185

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Registered trials

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