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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2020

Efficacy of Intravenous Tranexamic Acid in Reducing Perioperative Blood Loss and Blood Product Transfusion Requirements in Patients Undergoing Multilevel Thoracic and Lumbar Spinal Surgeries: A Retrospective Study.

Alexandre B Todeschini, Alberto A Uribe, Marco Echeverria-Villalobos, Juan Fiorda-Diaz, Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul, Benjamin G McGahan, Andrew J Grossbach, Stephanus Viljoen, Sergio D Bergese

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Impact of adjunctive spine surgery on multilevel spinal fusion in the management of adult spinal deformity: A single centre propensity score-matched analysis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alexandre B TodeschiniDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
Alberto A UribeDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
Marco Echeverria-VillalobosDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
Juan Fiorda-DiazDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
Mahmoud Abdel-RasoulCenter for Biostatistics, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
Benjamin G McGahanDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
Andrew J GrossbachDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
Stephanus ViljoenDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
Sergio D BergeseDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center · USNeurological Surgery · USStony Brook University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

blood lossblood transfusionneurosurgeryspinal fusionspinal surgerytranexamic acid

Identifiers

PMID33424584
PMCPMC7793852
OpenAlexW3110245818

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