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ArticleCureus2022

An Atypical Presentation of a Severe Case of Anaplasma Phagocytophilum.

Sameer Kandhi, Haider Ghazanfar, Zaheer A Qureshi, Harika Kalangi, Abhilasha Jyala, Esther S Arguello Perez

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sameer KandhiInternal Medicine, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, USA.
Haider GhazanfarInternal Medicine, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, USA.
Zaheer A QureshiInternal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
Harika KalangiInternal Medicine, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, USA.
Abhilasha JyalaInternal Medicine, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, USA.
Esther S Arguello PerezInfectious Disease, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a case of a 79-year-old male presenting to a South Bronx hospital with complaints of fever, shortness of breath, severe thrombocytopenia, hematuria, elevated liver enzymes, and acute renal failure. The patient rapidly progressed to acute hypoxic respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Treatment was delayed for six days because the tick-borne disease was not considered in the differential. Empirical treatment of tick-borne illnesses should be considered in the proper clinical setting, and travel history should be relevant in any patient presenting with fever. Delay in appropriate treatment results in the onset of more severe illness.

Indexed as

anaplasmaanaplasmosisblack-legged tickselevated liver functionsinfectious diseaseleucopeniathrombocytopeniaticks

Identifiers

PMID35449628
PMCPMC9012425

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