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ArticleEuropean heart journal. Case reports2024

The chicken or the egg?

Nina Balac, Kyle F Nelson, Tara Naib, Ahmed El-Eshmawi, Martin E Goldman

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Article in European heart journal. Case reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Double trouble:European heart journal. Case reports · 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

5 authors.

Nina BalacIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Internal Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1070-9593
Kyle F NelsonIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Tara NaibIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Ahmed El-EshmawiIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Martin E GoldmanIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, New York, NY 10029, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Case Summary: A previously healthy 25-year-old male presented with worsening abdominal pain, an episode of acute chest pain, new lightheadedness, and gait instability in the setting of Discussion: We presume that the formation of the ventricular thrombus in this case was a result of transient thrombophilia in the setting of

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Case reportLeft ventricleMyocardial infarctionSystemic embolismThrombectomyThrombus

Identifiers

PMID39239134
PMCPMC11375589

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