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ArticleJournal of atrial fibrillation

Cryoballoon versus Radiofrequency Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: A Meta-analysis of 16 Clinical Trials.

Jalaj Garg, Rahul Chaudhary, Chandrasekar Palaniswamy, Neeraj Shah, Parasuram Krishnamoorthy, Babak Bozorgnia, Andrea Natale

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In one paragraph

Article in Journal of atrial fibrillation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03551158 (The Search for Non-invasive Determinants of Response to Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Non-invasive Evaluation of Left Atrium Anatomy and Function With Three Dimensional Echocardiography), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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.

NCT03551158 nacompletednot on this map

The Search for Non-invasive Determinants of Response to Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Non-invasive Evaluation of Left Atrium Anatomy and Function With Three Dimensional Echocardiography: Comparison With Cardiac CT and MRI

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversitair Ziekenhuis BrusselRan2017 to 2019Enrolled300ConditionsAtrial FibrillationArmsEchocardiography
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Safety and effectiveness of the first balloon-in-basket pulsed field ablation system for the treatment of atrial fibrillation: VOLT CE Mark Study 6-month results.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025
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  3. Omitting transesophageal echocardiography before catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2024
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  5. Dosing of the second-generation cryoballoon using acute time-to-pulmonary vein isolation as an indicator of durable ablation in a canine model.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2018
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  7. Acute pericarditis following second-generation cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2018
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  8. Predictors of arrhythmia recurrence after balloon cryoablation of atrial fibrillation: the value of CAAP-AF risk scoring system.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2017
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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

7 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Jalaj GargDivision of Cardiology, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA.
Rahul ChaudharyDepartment of Medicine, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Chandrasekar PalaniswamyHelmsley Electrophysiology Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Neeraj ShahDivision of Cardiology, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA.
Parasuram KrishnamoorthyEinstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA.
Babak BozorgniaDivision of Cardiology, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA.
Andrea NataleTexas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center, Austin, TX.
Lehigh Valley Health Network · USEinstein Healthcare Network · USIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USJohns Hopkins University · USLehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono · USTexas Cardiac Arrhythmia · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Atrial FibrillationCatheter AblationCryoballoonRadiofrequency

Identifiers

PMID28496925
PMCPMC5368545
OpenAlexW2607663999

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Registered trials

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.