Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39926638›Full record

ArticleClinical case reports2025

The S1Q3T3 Electrocardiographic Abnormality as a Result of Massive Empyema due to Pyogenic Liver Abscess: A Case Report.

Mahmonir Mohammadi, Mahnaz Valizadeh, Nasrin Rahmani-Ju, Yasamin Khosravaninezhad

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Clinical case reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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. 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

4 authors.

Mahmonir MohammadiDepartment of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences Islamic Azad University Tehran Iran.
Mahnaz ValizadehDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences Islamic Azad University Tehran Iran.
Nasrin Rahmani-JuDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences Islamic Azad University Tehran Iran.
Yasamin KhosravaninezhadGeneral Practitioner, Tehran Medical Sciences Islamic Azad University Tehran Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6733-3908

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The S1Q3T3 pattern on the electrocardiogram is often associated with right heart strain in pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax, and acute lung diseases causing acute cor pulmonale. The S1Q3T3 pattern during acute massive empyema in the setting of a liver abscess has not been reported in theliterature. We present a case report of a 41-year-old Iranian female patient with a sudden onset chest pain, dyspnea, sinus tachycardia, and electrocardiography findings of S1Q3T3 pattern, who was revealed to have an expanding pyogenic pleural effusion as a result of trans-diaphragmatic extension of a liver abscess. The other causes of S1Q3T3 were excluded. The patient underwent the insertion of a chest tube to remove the pus. After chest tube insertion, the S1Q3T3 pattern resolved. Despite initial improvement, the patient developed complications, including pleural adhesions and lung collapse, and required a posterolateral thoracotomy with decortication. This resulted in dramatic clinical improvement. Rapidly expanding massive pyogenic pleural effusion can lead to the S1Q3T3 pattern on the electrocardiogram.

Indexed as

ECG abnormalityliver abscesspyogenic pleural effusionS1Q3T3

Identifiers

PMID39926638
PMCPMC11805712

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.