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ReviewClinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society2018

Current developments in cardiac rhythm management devices.

Philipp Halbfass, Kai Sonne, Karin Nentwich, Elena Ene, Thomas Deneke

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Review in Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Association between atrial fibrillation and Helicobacter pylori.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2019
    Pooled it
  2. Postshock Pacing in Cardiac Arrest: A Concise Review.Emergency medicine international · 2025
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Pulmonary vein isolation treats symptomatic AF in a patient with Lamin A/C mutation: case report and review of the literature.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2020
    Review
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  7. Sex differences in optimal atrioventricular delay in patients receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2020
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  8. Prognostic impact of recurrences of ventricular tachyarrhythmias and appropriate ICD therapies in a high-risk ICD population.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Philipp HalbfassHeart Center Bad Neustadt, Clinic for Interventional Electrophysiology, 97616, Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany. philipp.halbfass@kardiologie-bad-neustadt.de.
Kai SonneHeart Center Bad Neustadt, Clinic for Interventional Electrophysiology, 97616, Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany.
Karin NentwichHeart Center Bad Neustadt, Clinic for Interventional Electrophysiology, 97616, Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany.
Elena EneHeart Center Bad Neustadt, Clinic for Interventional Electrophysiology, 97616, Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany.
Thomas DenekeHeart Center Bad Neustadt, Clinic for Interventional Electrophysiology, 97616, Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endocardial pacing has experienced a tremendous evolution since the 1960s. A lot of challenges associated with pacemaker and ICD devices have already been successfully targeted. However, a relevant number of problems have not been solved to date. Not all patients with accepted indication for biventricular pacing have benefited from cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) despite extensive efforts to reduce the rate of non-responders. Current strategies to optimize lead position, multipolar left-ventricular (LV) pacing leads, new strategies to gain access to the left-ventricle (atrial transseptal or ventricular transseptal access) or alternative right-ventricular (septal, His bundle pacing) pacing sites, and "leadless" LV pacing have the potential to increase response to device-based heart-failure treatment. The opportunity of pacemaker and ICD remote monitoring led to relevant improvements in therapy management by timely detection of events requiring medical or invasive interventions (e.g., external cardioversion of atrial fibrillation, increasing effective biventricular pacing, catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardias, or changes in heart-failure medication). Two completely endocardial leadless "all-in-one" pacemaker systems recently became available. Besides these innovations, new "synergistic" therapy concepts combining catheter ablation and device therapy proved to affect clinical endpoints (e.g., ATAAC study and CASTLE-AF study).

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Disease ManagementCardiac Resynchronization Therapy DevicesEquipment DesignHeart FailureHumansCardiac resynchronization therapyHis bundle pacingLeadless pacemakerMultisite pacingRemote monitoring

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