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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Fatal Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome in an adult due to serogroup Y

Rúben Carvalho, Fernando Henriques, Sónia Teixeira, Paulo Coimbra

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In one paragraph

Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 46% 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, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rúben CarvalhoDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal ruben.melo.carvalho@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2823-7256
Fernando HenriquesDepartment of Intensive Care, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal.
Sónia TeixeiraDepartment of Intensive Care, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal.
Paulo CoimbraDepartment of Intensive Care, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal.
Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (WFS), defined as severe adrenal insufficiency due to bilateral adrenal gland haemorrhagic necrosis, occurred in a 59-year-old woman. An underlying serogroup Y

Indexed as

Fluid TherapySepsisWaterhouse-Friderichsen SyndromeFatal OutcomeFemaleHumansMiddle AgedNeisseria meningitidis, Serogroup YPortugaladult intensive careemergency medicinepneumonia (infectious disease)

Identifiers

PMID33541984
PMCPMC7868193
OpenAlexW3126329361

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Registered trials

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