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ArticleCureus2024

Whipple's Disease Presenting With a Chief Complaint of Dyspnea and Cough From Pulmonary Invasion Without Evidence of Gastrointestinal Involvement.

Michael Ladna, John George, Christopher E Forsmark

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Deciphering whipple's disease complexity.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2026
    Review
  2. A case report of AIDS complicated byFrontiers in medicine · 2025
    Article
  3. Analysis of clinical and imaging features and prognosis of patients positive forFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
    Article
  4. 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael LadnaInternal Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, USA.
John GeorgeGastroenterology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, USA.
Christopher E ForsmarkGastroenterology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, USA.
Florida College · USUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A patient with immune thrombocytopenia, systemic lupus erythematosus on chronic corticosteroids, and interstitial lung disease was referred to the pulmonology clinic due to progressively worsening dyspnea. A bronchoscopy was done and a thorough workup was negative for any infectious pathology or malignancy. A lung biopsy with MicroGenDX test (MicroGen Diagnostics, Lubbock, TX) revealed

Indexed as

chronic lung diseaseimmunosuppressioninterstitial lung diseasetropheryma whippleiwhipple’s disease

Identifiers

PMID38516502
PMCPMC10956915
OpenAlexW4391953919

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Registered trials

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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.