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SynthesisMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021

Effects of High-Frequency (HF) Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) on Upper Extremity Motor Function in Stroke Patients: A Systematic Review.

Birute Vabalaite, Laura Petruseviciene, Raimondas Savickas, Raimondas Kubilius, Povilas Ignatavicius, Egle Lendraitiene

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract readSystematic Review
In one paragraph

Synthesis in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 16 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
1.8field-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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Systematic review of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for post-stroke hemiplegic shoulder pain.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  4. Comparative efficacy of different noninvasive brain stimulation protocols on upper-extremity motor function and activities of daily living after stroke: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Birute VabalaiteDepartment of Rehabilitation, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos, Eiveniu Str. 2, LT-50161 Kaunas, LithuaniaORCID 0000-0001-5281-9075
Laura PetrusevicieneDepartment of Rehabilitation, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos, Eiveniu Str. 2, LT-50161 Kaunas, LithuaniaORCID 0000-0002-8829-5645
Raimondas SavickasDepartment of Rehabilitation, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos, Eiveniu Str. 2, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania
Raimondas KubiliusDepartment of Rehabilitation, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos, Eiveniu Str. 2, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania
Povilas IgnataviciusDepartment of Surgery, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Klinikos, Eiveniu Str. 2, LT-50161 Kaunas, LithuaniaORCID 0000-0002-6112-6235
Egle LendraitieneDepartment of Rehabilitation, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos, Eiveniu Str. 2, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences · LT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

StrokeStroke RehabilitationHumansRecovery of FunctionTranscranial Magnetic StimulationTreatment OutcomeUpper Extremityneurological rehabilitationstroketranscranial magnetic stimulationupper extremity

Identifiers

PMID34833433
PMCPMC8617907
OpenAlexW3211791846

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