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ArticleCureus2021

Spontaneous Bilateral Subdural Hematomas in a Patient With Cryptogenic Liver Cirrhosis.

Soban Ahmad, Hassam Ali, Sundus Ikram, Shiza Sarfraz, Amman Yousaf

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Soban AhmadInternal Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA.
Hassam AliInternal Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA.
Sundus IkramInternal Medicine, SEGi University, Petaling Jaya, MYS.
Shiza SarfrazAnesthesiology, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Quaid-E-Azam Medical University, Bahawalpur, PAK.
Amman YousafInternal Medicine, McLaren Health Care, Flint, USA.
East Carolina University · USBahawal Victoria Hospital · PKSEGi University · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spontaneous subdural hematoma (SDH) in cirrhotic patients is a rarely described condition in the literature and carries a high mortality rate. Several factors can potentially contribute to SDH development in cirrhosis, including coagulation cascade defects, thrombocytopenia, arteriovenous malformations, and cerebral atrophy. Clinicians should always keep spontaneous development of SDH in the differential diagnosis of acute encephalopathy in patients with end-stage liver disease, and prompt head imaging should be considered. We report a unique case of a 64-year-old patient with cryptogenic liver cirrhosis who was found to have spontaneous, bilateral SDHs while undergoing workup for acute encephalopathy.

Indexed as

cryptogenicencephalopathyliver cirrhosisnon-traumaticsubdural hematoma

Identifiers

PMID34345569
PMCPMC8325620
OpenAlexW3178337668

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