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ArticleCureus2024

A Unique Case Linking Rituximab to a Ureaplasma Infection and Life-Threatening Hyperammonemia.

Muhammad Muneeb Ibad, Samreen Jawaid, Sowmya Manjari Siddenthi, Aliyan Warraich, Omar Rahman

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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 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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. InvasiveIDCases · 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

5 authors.

Muhammad Muneeb IbadPulmonary & Critical Care, Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, USA.
Samreen JawaidPulmonary & Critical Care, Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, USA.
Sowmya Manjari SiddenthiPulmonary & Critical Care, Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, USA.
Aliyan WarraichPulmonary & Critical Care, Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, USA.
Omar RahmanPulmonary & Critical Care, Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rituximab is an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody medication used in treating various cancers like non-Hodgkin lymphomas as well as immunologic conditions like granulomatosis with polyangiitis. It disrupts and decreases the number of B-cells, which causes an immunosuppressive state. This can promote the growth of numerous rare and opportunistic pathogens, one of which is

Indexed as

granulomatosis with polyangiiitishyperammonemiahyperammonemia-encephalopathyimmunosuppressantnon-cirrhotic hyperammonemiarituximabshockureaplasmaureaplasma urealyticumwegener's granulomatosis

Identifiers

PMID39723307
PMCPMC11669397

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