A Unique Case of Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Associated Diarrhea in a Long-Term Hospitalized Adult Patient.

Shikha Mishra, Baldeep Mann, Charizza Besmanos, Nadia Raza, Arash Heidari

Open access · diamondAbstract readCase Reports

In one paragraph

Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

2citing papers in PubMed

0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 50% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

The emerging role ofGerms · 2024
Review
A Rare Case ofCase reports in hepatology · 2024
Article

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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shikha MishraInternal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Kern Medical, Bakersfield, USA.

Baldeep MannInternal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Kern Medical, Bakersfield, USA.

Charizza BesmanosInternal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Fresno, USA.

Nadia RazaEndocrinology, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, USA.

Arash HeidariInfectious Diseases, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Kern Medical, Bakersfield, USA.

University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 53-year-old Caucasian man with a history of alcohol use disorder, hypertension, and hypothyroidism presented with a myxedema coma requiring intubation. He had a complicated hospital course with ventilator-associated pneumonia with MRSA, sepsis with candida, and abdominal compartment syndrome requiring decompressive laparotomy. The patient slowly recovered during 43 days of hospitalization. During the intensive care unit (ICU) stay, a flexi-seal rectal tube was placed due to fecal incontinence. After being moved to a regular medicine unit, he started having loose watery stools with leukocytosis and neutrophilia. Clostridium difficile (C. diff.) colitis was suspected, and he was placed on oral vancomycin empirically. His stool test for C. diff. came back negative, and his rectal tube was subsequently removed. Imaging did not show any abscess, perforated viscus, or fistula formations. His stool culture grew a heavy colony of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa). Vancomycin was stopped, and he was started on oral ciprofloxacin 750 mg twice a day with complete resolution of his diarrhea and leukocytosis.

Indexed as

c.diffcolitisgastroenteritispseudomonaspseudomonas aeruginosa

Identifiers

PMID37325686

DOI10.7759/cureus.39978

PMCPMC10263447

OpenAlexW4379470497

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.