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ReviewJournal of cardiovascular development and disease2017

Management of Arrhythmias in Heart Failure.

Daniele Masarone, Giuseppe Limongelli, Marta Rubino, Fabio Valente, Rossella Vastarella, Ernesto Ammendola, Rita Gravino, Marina Verrengia, Gemma Salerno, Giuseppe Pacileo

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Review in Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. The impact of sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors on ventricular arrhythmia in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: a meta analysis.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2026
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  10. The two-pore KAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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  11. A Genetic Test to Identify People at High Risk of Heart Failure.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  20. Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Daniele MasaroneCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. danielemasarone@libero.it.
Giuseppe LimongelliCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. limongelligiusepppe@libero.it.
Marta RubinoCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. rubinomarta@libero.it.
Fabio ValenteCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. fabio.valente@alice.it.
Rossella VastarellaCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. rossellavastarella86@gmail.com.
Ernesto AmmendolaCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. ammendolaernesto@libero.it.
Rita GravinoCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. ritagravino@libero.it.
Marina VerrengiaCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. mariverr@yahoo.it.
Gemma SalernoCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. gemmsalerno@hotmail.com.
Giuseppe PacileoCardiologia SUN-Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, via L. Bianchi, Naples 80100, Italy. gpacile@tin.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure patients are predisposed to develop arrhythmias. Supraventricular arrhythmias can exacerbate the heart failure symptoms by decreasing the effective cardiac output and their control require pharmacological, electrical, or catheter-based intervention. In the setting of atrial flutter or atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation becomes paramount to prevent systemic or cerebral embolism. Patients with heart failure are also prone to develop ventricular arrhythmias that can present a challenge to the managing clinician. The management strategy depends on the type of arrhythmia, the underlying structural heart disease, the severity of heart failure, and the range from optimization of heart failure therapy to catheter ablation. Patients with heart failure, irrespective of ejection fraction are at high risk for developing sudden cardiac death, however risk stratification is a clinical challenge and requires a multiparametric evaluation for identification of patients who should undergo implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator. Finally, patients with heart failure can also develop symptomatic bradycardia, caused by sinus node dysfunction or atrio-ventricular block. The treatment of bradycardia in these patients with pacing is usually straightforward but needs some specific issue.

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bradyarrhythmiasheart failuresudden cardiac deathtachyarrhythmias

Identifiers

PMID29367535
PMCPMC5715690

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