Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37602118›Full record

ArticleCureus2023

Anti-Ro52/Anti-nuclear Matrix Protein 2 Positive Clinically Amyopathic Dermatomyositis Presented Only With Interstitial Lung Disease.

Stratos Skrimizeas, Ilias E Dimeas, George Dimeas, Argyrios Tzouvelekis, Zoe Daniil

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 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact, top 82% 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 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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.

Stratos SkrimizeasRespiratory Medicine, University Hospital Patras, Patras, GRC.
Ilias E DimeasRespiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, GRC.
George DimeasRespiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, GRC.
Argyrios TzouvelekisRespiratory Medicine, University Hospital Patras, Patras, GRC.
Zoe DaniilRespiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, GRC.
General University Hospital of Patras · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This report contemplates a unique case of clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) that presented as interstitial lung disease. The patient was a 55-year-old woman who showed up with progressive exercise intolerance and a dry cough without muscular or dermatological clinical manifestations. Diagnostic workup and imaging revealed the presence of interstitial lung disease, and further evaluation led to a positive autoimmune panel for anti-nuclear matrix protein 2 (anti-NXP2) and anti-Ro52 antibodies, establishing the diagnosis of anti-NXP2 plus anti-Ro52 antibodies-positive amyopathic idiopathic inflammatory dermatomyositis. The patient was started on intravenous corticosteroids. She showed improvement on her chest X-ray (CXR) and was then switched to oral corticosteroids. After six months of steroid treatment, corticosteroids were stopped, and the patient was re-evaluated one month later disease relapse.

Indexed as

amyopathic dermatomyositisanti-ro52corticosteroidsidiopathic inflammatory myopathiesintrestitial lung diseasenxp-2 antibodypolymyositispost-covid-19

Identifiers

PMID37602118
PMCPMC10436751
OpenAlexW4384822536

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.