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ArticleJournal of hepatology2021

Autoimmune hepatitis developing after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine: Causality or casualty?

Fernando Bril, Sameer Al Diffalha, Mark Dean, David M Fettig

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Article in Journal of hepatology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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129citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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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

129 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Autoantibodies against type I interferons in COVID-19 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2023
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  16. Analysis of Hyperexpanded T Cell Clones in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine-Associated Liver Injury by Spatial Proteomics and Transcriptomics.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2025
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69 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Fernando BrilInternal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. Electronic address: fbril@uab.edu.
Sameer Al DiffalhaDivision of Anatomic Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Mark DeanInternal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
David M FettigDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19 VaccinesHepatitis, AutoimmuneLiverAdultAntibodies, AntinuclearBiopsyBNT162 VaccineCOVID-19DNAEndosonographyFemaleGlucocorticoidsHumansLiver Function TestsPostpartum PeriodPrednisoneAntibodies, AntinuclearBNT162 VaccineCOVID-19 VaccinesDNAGlucocorticoidsPrednisonecoronavirusliver injurymRNA vaccinesSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33862041
PMCPMC8056822

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