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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention versus Optimal Medical Therapy in Patients with Chronic Total Occlusion: A Meta-Analysis.

Sascha Macherey-Meyer, Khalid Salem, Sebastian Heyne, Max Maria Meertens, Karl Finke, Victor Mauri, Stephan Baldus, Christoph Adler, Samuel Lee

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Clinical outcomes of drug-coated balloonsCardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2026
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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

9 authors.

Sascha Macherey-MeyerClinic III for Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7080-6611
Khalid SalemFaculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937 Köln, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-1597-5881
Sebastian HeyneClinic III for Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1581-9954
Max Maria MeertensClinic III for Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
Karl FinkeClinic III for Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
Victor MauriClinic III for Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
Stephan BaldusClinic III for Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
Christoph AdlerClinic III for Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
Samuel LeeClinic III for Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

acute coronary syndromechronic coronary syndromechronic total occlusionCTOoptimal medical therapypercutaneous coronary intervention

Identifiers

PMID38792462
PMCPMC11122436

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