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Observational studyAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2021

Shear Wave Elastography, a New Tool for Diaphragmatic Qualitative Assessment: A Translational Study.

Yassir Aarab, Aurelien Flatres, Fanny Garnier, Mathieu Capdevila, Fabrice Raynaud, Alain Lacampagne, David Chapeau, Kada Klouche, Pascal Etienne, Samir Jaber and 4 more

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Observational study in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Reply to: Considerations of emerging diaphragmatic ultrasound techniques for clinical practice: potential pitfalls and future challenges.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  6. Considerations of emerging diaphragmatic ultrasound techniques for clinical practice: potential pitfalls and future challenges.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  10. Ultrasound innovations in diaphragm assessment: an integrative review of expanding clinical applications.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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  17. Managing respiratory muscle weakness during weaning from invasive ventilation.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Yassir AarabMedical Intensive Care Department.
Aurelien FlatresMedical Intensive Care Department.
Fanny GarnierMedical Intensive Care Department.
Mathieu CapdevilaSaint Eloi Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Department, and.
Fabrice RaynaudPhyMedExp, and.
Alain LacampagnePhyMedExp, and.
David ChapeauMedical Intensive Care Department.
Kada KloucheMedical Intensive Care Department.
Pascal EtienneCharles Coulomb Laboratory (L2C), Montpellier University, CNRS, Montpellier, France.
Samir JaberSaint Eloi Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Department, and.
Nicolas MolinariBiostatistics Department, Montpellier University and Montpellier Teaching Hospital, Montpellier, France.
Lucie GamonBiostatistics Department, Montpellier University and Montpellier Teaching Hospital, Montpellier, France.
Stefan MateckiPhyMedExp, and.
Boris JungMedical Intensive Care Department.ORCID 0000-0003-2522-1531
Intensive Care Foundation · AUPhysiologie et Médecine Expérimentale du Coeur et des Muscles · FRInserm · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité de Montpellier · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaBiopsyCritical IllnessDiaphragmElasticity Imaging TechniquesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesQualitative ResearchRespiration, ArtificialSwineTranslational Research, Biomedicaldiaphragmatic dysfunctiondiaphragmatic ultrasonographymechanical ventilationtransdiaphragmatic pressure

Identifiers

PMID34255974
OpenAlexW3178923726

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.