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ArticleEuropean clinical respiratory journal2021

A prolonged steroid therapy may be beneficial in some patients after the COVID-19 pneumonia.

Sabina Kostorz-Nosal, Dariusz Jastrzębski, Michał Chyra, Piotr Kubicki, Michał Zieliński, Dariusz Ziora

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In one paragraph

Article in European clinical respiratory journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. High-doseThe European respiratory journal · 2022
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  3. Methylprednisolone in the management of post-COVID-19 interstitial lung disease: A randomized trial (STERCOV-ILD).Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2026
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  4. Prolonged corticosteroid therapy and lung abnormalities in patients after severe COVID-19 pneumonia.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2024
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  14. Glucocorticoids and COVID-19.Pharmacological research · 2022
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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sabina Kostorz-NosalDepartment of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Silesia Medical University in Katowice, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4844-0609
Dariusz JastrzębskiDepartment of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Silesia Medical University in Katowice, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8598-1930
Michał ChyraPulmonology Department, Silesia Medical University in Katowice, Poland.
Piotr KubickiDepartment of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Silesia Medical University in Katowice, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7675
Michał ZielińskiDepartment of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Silesia Medical University in Katowice, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6672-8219
Dariusz ZioraDepartment of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Silesia Medical University in Katowice, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3041-8673
Medical University of Silesia · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

chest ct abnormalitiesCOVID-19organising pneumoniapulmonary fibrosissteroid therapy

Identifiers

PMID34221256
PMCPMC8231404
OpenAlexW3174557962

What Socratic holds

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