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ArticleJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Establishing Aspergillus-Specific IgG Cut-Off Level for Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis Diagnosis: Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.

Meng-Rui Lee, Hung-Ling Huang, Li-Ta Keng, Hsu-Liang Chang, Chau-Chyun Sheu, Pin-Kuei Fu, Jann-Yuan Wang, Inn-Wen Chong, Jin-Yuan Shih, Chong-Jen Yu

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Article in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 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

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Meng-Rui LeeDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-7220-4833
Hung-Ling HuangDepartment of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung 80145, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-8809-0546
Li-Ta KengDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.
Hsu-Liang ChangDepartment of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung 80145, Taiwan.
Chau-Chyun SheuDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-7979-3749
Pin-Kuei FuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-9416-4094
Jann-Yuan WangDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-3406-366X
Inn-Wen ChongDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-8328-8684
Jin-Yuan ShihDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-2854-5067
Chong-Jen YuDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-5664-9392
National Taiwan University Hospital · TWKaohsiung Medical University · TWNational Chung Hsing University · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TW

Funding

Ministry of Health and Welfare MOHW109-CDC-C-114-000108Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan 109-2314-B-002-185-MY3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectives

methodsWe prospectively recruited participants with clinical suspicion of CPA in three centers in Taiwan during 2019 June to 2020 August. Serum

resultsA total of 373 participants were recruited. In the derivation cohort (

conclusionsSerum

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Aspergillus fumigatusAspergillus IgGchronic pulmonary aspergilluscut-off valueTaiwan

Identifiers

PMID34204844
PMCPMC8231598
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