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ArticleCirculation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology2017

Ventricular Fibrillation: Rotors or Foci? Both!

Kedar K Aras, Matthew W Kay, Igor R Efimov

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Article in Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Dominant vector changes during early wavebreak/spiral wave (Wiggers stage 1) in ventricular fibrillation: insights from the analysis of 100 electrophysiology studies.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2022
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  6. The transient outward potassium current plays a key role in spiral wave breakup in ventricular tissue.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kedar K ArasFrom the Department of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University, DC.
Matthew W KayFrom the Department of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University, DC.
Igor R EfimovFrom the Department of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University, DC. efimov@gwu.edu.

Funding

Low Energy DefibrillationR01HL115415 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI EFIMOV, IGOR R · 2013 to 2016
$2.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL115415
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Arrhythmias, CardiacVentricular FibrillationElectric CountershockEndocardiumHumansarrhythmias, cardiacdeath, sudden, cardiacEditorialselectrophysiologyventricular fibrillation

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PMID29247034
PMCPMC8081296

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