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ArticleHuman reproduction open2022

Diagnosing chronic endometritis: when simplification fails to clarify.

Maximilian Murtinger, Barbara Wirleitner, Dietmar Spitzer, Helena Bralo, Susanna Miglar, Maximilian Schuff

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Article in Human reproduction open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Chronic Endometritis and Endometriosis: Two Sides of the Same Coin?Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025
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  8. Implantation Failure: Where to Look Up?Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maximilian MurtingerNext Fertility IVF Prof. Zech-Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9679-9264
Barbara WirleitnerNext Fertility IVF Prof. Zech-Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria.
Dietmar SpitzerNext Fertility IVF Prof. Zech-Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Helena BraloNext Fertility IVF Prof. Zech-Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria.
Susanna MiglarNext Fertility IVF Prof. Zech-Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Maximilian SchuffNext Fertility IVF Prof. Zech-Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria.
IVF Centers Prof. Zech · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reproductive immunology has grown in importance in recent years and has even developed into a discipline of its own within the field of reproductive medicine. Many aspects of reproductive failure such as repeated implantation failure or recurrent miscarriages are, meanwhile, seen as a consequence of aberrant expression of immunological factors. This is reflected by the increasing number of tests for assessing and quantifying different immune cell types as well as by a wide range of immune therapies offered to a clientele consisting of desperate patients requesting additional 'IVF tools': first, what is still usually disregarded is the enormous plasticity and fluctuation of most immune cells in the genital tract; second, their still poorly characterized functions in the endometrial cycle: further, their partially unknown role in embryo implantation and in establishing a pregnancy; and third, the fact that one of the fundamental hypotheses of reproductive immunology-of note-the Medawar concept or 'Medawar's Paradox' of semi-allogeneic graft embryo, is partially based on an erroneous assumption, i.e. the immunologic rejection and tolerance of an embryo. In the present opinion article, we comment on the diagnostic procedures and therapy approaches for chronic endometritis within the scope of reproductive medicine.

Indexed as

CD138+chronic endometritisoverdiagnosisplasma cellreproductive immunology

Identifiers

PMID35722504
PMCPMC9202642
OpenAlexW4281731530

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