Hybrid procedures for persistent atrial fibrillation: necessity and timing of the catheter ablation stage.

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.

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.

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Sequential hybrid ablation vs. surgical CryoMaze alone for treatment of atrial fibrillation: results of multicentre randomized controlled trial.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 · 2024
   Trial
2. Invasive therapies for patients with concomitant heart failure and atrial fibrillation.Heart failure reviews · 2019
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Hybrid ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation: how to merge the best from both worlds.2017
• Comment on
  Staged hybrid procedure in persistent atrial fibrillation: safety, efficacy, and atrial tachyarrhythmia.2017

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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