ArticleJournal of arrhythmia2020
Correlation of pulmonary vein reconnection patterns after cryoballoon and duty-cycled ablation of atrial fibrillation with the time of arrhythmia recurrence.
Article in Journal of arrhythmia, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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, 1 citations in OpenAlex.
- Both Electrical Isolation and Lesion Homogeneity Should be Focused: Evidence From Repeat Atrial Fibrillation Ablation.Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology · 2026Article
- Correlation of pulmonary vein reconnection patterns after cryoballoon and duty-cycled ablation of atrial fibrillation with the time of arrhythmia recurrence.Journal of arrhythmia · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is safe and effective in the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). We compare and correlate pulmonary vein (PV) reconnection patterns at repeat ablation in patients with recurrent AF after PVI using duty-cycled radiofrequency (RF) technology (PVAC) or second-generation cryoballoon (CB) with the time of AF recurrence. METHODS AND
resultsIn total, 85 PVAC and 66 CB patients undergoing a second ablation were enrolled 9.7 ± 3.4 months after initial PVI. PV reconnections were comparably high between both groups (93% PVAC and 92% CB patients). A mean of 2.79 ± 1.2 PVs/patient were reconnected after PVAC PVI compared with 1.97 ± 0.8 in CB patients,
conclusionsCB PVI was associated with greater durability and lesser PV reconnections/patient. There were negative correlations for both devices between extent of PV reconnections and time of AF recurrence. CB patients with early AF recurrences- although less frequently observed compared with PVAC patients had more reconnected PVs than PVAC patients, suggesting additional effects for AF prevention after CB PVI.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
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.