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ReviewNature reviews. Cardiology2025

The spleen in ischaemic heart disease.

Gerd Heusch, Petra Kleinbongard

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Review in Nature reviews. Cardiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

2 authors.

Gerd HeuschInstitute for Pathophysiology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. gerd.heusch@uk-essen.de.ORCID 0000-0001-7078-4160
Petra KleinbongardInstitute for Pathophysiology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3576-3772

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ischaemic heart disease is a consequence of coronary atherosclerosis, and atherosclerosis is a systemic inflammatory disease. The spleen releases various immune cells in temporally distinct patterns. Neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, B cells and T cells execute innate and adaptive immune processes in the coronary atherosclerotic plaque and in the ischaemic myocardium. Prolonged inflammation contributes to ischaemic heart failure. The spleen is also a target of neuromodulation through vagal, sympathetic and sensory nerve activation. Efferent vagal activation and subsequent activation of the noradrenergic splenic nerve activate β

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Myocardial IschemiaSpleenAnimalsHumansSplenectomy

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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 Socratic graph.