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ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2021

Right Heart Catheterization in Cardiogenic Shock Is Associated With Improved Outcomes: Insights From the Nationwide Readmissions Database.

Sagar Ranka, Ioannis Mastoris, Navin K Kapur, Ryan J Tedford, Aniket Rali, Prakash Acharya, Robert Weidling, Amandeep Goyal, Andrew J Sauer, Bhanu Gupta and 5 more

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Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
15.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Hospital-Level Variations in Outcomes and Readmissions Among Patients With STEMI and Cardiogenic Shock Receiving Mechanical Circulatory Support: Insights From a National Cohort.Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions · 2026
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  12. The uses of right heart catheterization in cardio-pulmonary disease: State-of-the-art.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2025
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  16. Short term outcomes and resource utilization inFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024
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  20. Sepsis Management in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023
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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

15 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Sagar RankaDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.ORCID 0000-0002-2167-6961
Ioannis MastorisDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.ORCID 0000-0002-1779-6629
Navin K KapurThe Cardiovascular Center Tufts Medical Center Tufts University School of Medicine Boston MA.ORCID 0000-0002-8302-6796
Ryan J TedfordDivision of Cardiology Department of Medicine Medical University of South Carolina Charleston SC.ORCID 0000-0001-9045-7722
Aniket RaliDivision of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Houston TX.
Prakash AcharyaDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.ORCID 0000-0001-6779-4106
Robert WeidlingDepartment of Internal Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.
Amandeep GoyalDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.ORCID 0000-0001-6070-1747
Andrew J SauerDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.
Bhanu GuptaDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.ORCID 0000-0001-5113-6707
Nicholas HaglundDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.
Kamal GuptaDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.ORCID 0000-0002-2440-9033
James C FangDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Utah Salt Lake City UT.ORCID 0000-0003-2427-9504
JoAnn LindenfeldDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville TN.
Zubair ShahDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine The University of Kansas Health SystemUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City KS.ORCID 0000-0002-3221-3655
University of Kansas · USBaylor College of Medicine · USMedical University of South Carolina · USTufts University · USUniversity of Utah · USVanderbilt University Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background The usefulness of right heart catherization (RHC) has long been debated, and thus, we aimed to study the real-world impact of the use of RHC in cardiogenic shock. Methods and Results In the Nationwide Readmissions Database using

Indexed as

Cardiac CatheterizationHeart FailurePatient ReadmissionShock, CardiogenicDatabases, FactualHumansRetrospective StudiesRisk Factorscardiogenic shockcatheterizationoutcomereadmission

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PMID34423652
PMCPMC8649238
OpenAlexW3195080619

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