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ArticleClinical case reports2022

MELAS with multiple stroke-like episodes due to the variant m.13513G>A in

Ritwik Ghosh, Souvik Dubey, Subhas Bhuin, Durjoy Lahiri, Biman Kanti Ray, Josef Finsterer

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 43% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ritwik GhoshDepartment of General Medicine Burdwan Medical College & Hospital Burdwan West Bengal India.
Souvik DubeyDepartment of Neuromedicine Bangur Institute of Neurosciences Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research & SSKM Hospital Kolkata West Bengal India.
Subhas BhuinDepartment of Neuromedicine Bangur Institute of Neurosciences Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research & SSKM Hospital Kolkata West Bengal India.
Durjoy LahiriDepartment of Neuromedicine Bangur Institute of Neurosciences Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research & SSKM Hospital Kolkata West Bengal India.
Biman Kanti RayDepartment of Neuromedicine Bangur Institute of Neurosciences Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research & SSKM Hospital Kolkata West Bengal India.
Josef FinstererNeurology Neurology & Neurophysiology Center vienna Österreich Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2839-7305
Bangur Institute of Neurosciences · INBurdwan Medical College & Hospital · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is characterized by metabolic stroke, seizures, cognitive decline, lactic acidosis, ragged-red fibers, headache, and vomiting, and in 80% of cases due to the mtDNA variant m.3243A>G. We report the case of a MELAS patient carrying a variant in subunit-5 of the respiratory chain (

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MELASmtDNArespiratory chainseizuresstroke‐like episode

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PMID35140962
PMCPMC8811176
OpenAlexW4210310241

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