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ArticlePediatric endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism2021

MELAS or Leigh syndrome, that's the question.

Josef Finsterer

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Article in Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 0 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Josef FinstererKlinik Landstrasse, Messerli Institute, Vienna, Austria.
Austrian Competence Centre of Food Safety · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With interest we read the article by Baszyńska-Wilk et al. about a 12 years old female who was diagnosed with mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome upon the clinical presentation, blood tests, and the cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [1]. The diagnosis was neither confirmed by biochemical nor by genetic investigations [1]. The study is appealing but raises the following concerns.

Indexed as

Acidosis, LacticLeigh DiseaseMELAS SyndromeStrokeChildFemaleHumansMitochondrial Encephalomyopathiesencephalopathy.lactic acidosisLeigh syndromeMELASpolyglandular syndrome

Identifiers

PMID35114773
PMCPMC10226348
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