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ReviewJournal of the Saudi Heart Association2021

Karima Taamallah, Fatma Hammami, Hédi Gharsallah, Makram Koubaa, Mounir Ben Jemaa, Wafa Fehri

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of the Saudi Heart Association, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. [Human brucellosis: three faces of an insidious zoonosis].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2026
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  6. [A case of brucella endocarditis in Tunisia].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2025
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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Karima TaamallahCardiology Department, Military Hospital of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.
Fatma HammamiInfectious Diseases Department, Hedi Chaker University Hospital, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
Hédi GharsallahIntensive Care Unit Department, Military Hospital of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.
Makram KoubaaInfectious Diseases Department, Hedi Chaker University Hospital, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
Mounir Ben JemaaInfectious Diseases Department, Hedi Chaker University Hospital, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
Wafa FehriCardiology Department, Military Hospital of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.
Military Hospital of Tunis · TNUniversity of Sfax · TNHopital Universitaire Hedi Chaker · TN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objective

methodA systematic review of PubMed database, Google, Google Scholar, and Scopus (From January 1974 to the present) for studies providing epidemiological, clinical and microbiological data as well as data on treatment and outcomes of

resultsA total of 51 reported cases were reviewed.

conclusionThis systematic review highlights diagnostic challenges and demonstrates that surgery improved outcome by reducing mortality in patients treated with the combined surgical and medical treatment option. Brucellosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis in patients residing in or traveling to areas of endemicity.

Indexed as

AntibioticsBrucellaEndocarditisProsthetic valveSurgery

Identifiers

PMID34447668
PMCPMC8366765
OpenAlexW3194546539

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Registered trials

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