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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2021

ECG-Based Indices to Characterize Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Before and During Stepwise Catheter Ablation.

Anna McCann, Jean-Marc Vesin, Etienne Pruvot, Laurent Roten, Christian Sticherling, Adrian Luca

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The mystery of the missing P waves: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Anna McCannApplied Signal Processing Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Jean-Marc VesinApplied Signal Processing Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Etienne PruvotService of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Laurent RotenDepartment of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Christian SticherlingDepartment of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Adrian LucaService of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHUniversity of Lausanne · CHUniversity Hospital of Basel · CHUniversity Hospital of Bern · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

atrial fibrillationcatheter ablationelectrocardiographic markersoutcome stratificationtemporal analysis

Identifiers

PMID33859573
PMCPMC8042333
OpenAlexW3146845726

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