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ReviewVascular health and risk management2017

Novel stroke risk reduction in atrial fibrillation: left atrial appendage occlusion with a focus on the Watchman closure device.

Arash Alipour, Lisette I S Wintgens, Martin J Swaans, Jippe C Balt, Benno J W M Rensing, Lucas V A Boersma

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In one paragraph

Review in Vascular health and risk management, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Decreased eGFR Is Associated With Ischemic Stroke in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy.Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
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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.

Arash AlipourDepartment of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
Lisette I S WintgensDepartment of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
Martin J SwaansDepartment of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
Jippe C BaltDepartment of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
Benno J W M RensingDepartment of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
Lucas V A BoersmaDepartment of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
St. Antonius Ziekenhuis · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains an important clinical problem with severe complications such as stroke, which especially harms those with risk factors as calculated by the CHADS

Indexed as

Atrial AppendageAtrial FibrillationCardiac CatheterizationEquipment DesignHumansRecurrenceRisk FactorsStrokeTreatment Outcomeatrial fibrillationischemic strokeleft atrial appendage

Identifiers

PMID28293114
PMCPMC5345987
OpenAlexW2593872642

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