Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35170634›Full record

ArticleArquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia

Cavernous sinus thrombosis with bilateral orbital vein involvement and diffuse ischemic retinopathy.

Diana H Kim, Sana A Bautista, Sonul Mehta, César A Briceño

Open access · diamondAbstract readCase ReportsLetter
In one paragraph

Article in Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 48% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Diana H KimDepartment of Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3232-8989
Sana A BautistaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Sonul MehtaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
César A BriceñoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 53-year-old man with a 3-day history of periorbital swelling and vision loss in the left eye was found to have septic cavernous sinus thrombosis with bilateral orbital vein involvement causing congestive orbitopathy. He was treated with an emergent canthotomy and cantholysis, intraocular pressure-lowering drops, antibiotics, anticoagulation, and serial examinations. Optical coherence tomography ultimately revealed diffuse ischemic destruction of both layers of the retina, which suggested occlusion of the ophthalmic artery or the short posterior ciliary arteries and central retinal artery without intracavernous internal carotid artery involvement. The patient remained without light perception in the left eye after treatment.

Indexed as

Cavernous Sinus ThrombosisHumansMiddle Aged

Identifiers

PMID35170634
PMCPMC11826674
OpenAlexW4205231445

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.