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ArticleCureus2025

COVID-19 Infection as a Possible Trigger for POLG-Related Mitochondrial Disease: A Case Report.

Stanislava Suroviaková, Vladimir Zolak, Matúš Igaz, Jana Kršiaková, Peter Bánovčin

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Article in Cureus, 2025. 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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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. Article
  2. When Surgical Intervention Becomes a Risk: Severe Drug-Induced Gingival Overgrowth and Clinical Decision-Making in Alpers-Huttenlocher Syndrome.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry
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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.

Stanislava SuroviakováDepartment of Pediatrics, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Martin, SVK.
Vladimir ZolakDepartment of Pediatrics, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Martin, SVK.
Matúš IgazDepartment of Pediatrics, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Martin, SVK.
Jana KršiakováClinic of Genetic Medicine, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Martin, SVK.
Peter BánovčinDepartment of Pediatrics, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Martin, SVK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A six-year-old child presented with an acute onset of refractory epileptic seizures during a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. As her clinical condition progressed, she developed super-refractory status epilepticus, resulting in significant cognitive and motor impairments. Genetic analysis revealed a homozygous mutation in the DNA Polymerase Gamma, Catalytic Subunit (

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alpers-huttenlocher syndromecovid-19 infectionepilepsymitochondrial disorderspolg mutation

Identifiers

PMID39958089
PMCPMC11830410

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