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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2021

Increased Risk of Decompression Sickness When Diving With a Right-to-Left Shunt: Results of a Prospective Single-Blinded Observational Study (The "Carotid Doppler" Study).

Peter Germonpré, Pierre Lafère, William Portier, Faye-Lisa Germonpré, Alessandro Marroni, Costantino Balestra

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. S2k guideline for diving accidents.German medical science : GMS e-journal · 2023
    Guideline
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  3. PFO and DCS of hyperbaric personnel.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2025
    Article
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  5. Inert Gas Mild Pressure Action on Healthy Humans: The "IPA" Study.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Article
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  7. Review
  8. Decompression illness: a comprehensive overview.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2024
    Article
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  10. Hyperoxia-induced stepwise reduction in blood flow through intrapulmonary, but not intracardiac, shunt during exercise.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2023
    Article
  11. Review
  12. SCUBA Diving in Adult Congenital Heart Disease.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Peter GermonpréCentre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Pierre LafèreCentre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
William PortierCentre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Faye-Lisa GermonpréCentre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Alessandro MarroniEnvironmental & Occupational, Ageing (Integrative) Physiology Lab, Haute Ecole Bruxelles-Brabant (HE2B), Auderghem, Belgium.
Costantino BalestraDivers Alert Network (DAN) Europe Research Division, Roseto, Italy.
Haute École de Bruxelles · BEQueen Astrid Military Hospital · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

adverse effectsdecompression sicknessdivingpatent foramen ovale (PFO)prospective studyrelative riskright-to-left shunt (RLS)SCUBA dive

Identifiers

PMID34777020
PMCPMC8586212
OpenAlexW3209026029

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