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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2022

Impact of Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation on Quality of Life.

Ursula Rohrer, Martin Manninger, Andreas Zirlik, Daniel Scherr

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ursula RohrerDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-5278-6362
Martin ManningerDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0545-4373
Andreas ZirlikDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria.
Daniel ScherrDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in adults. It is a complex arrhythmia leading to increased morbidity and mortality requiring thorough assessment and classification to guide therapy and to assess whether to pursue rate or rhythm control therapy. To obtain rhythm control, several strategies are available with different advantages and disadvantages concerning success rate and safety. Apart from antiarrhythmic drugs, catheter ablation is a well-established invasive therapy to treat atrial fibrillation. As quality of life is a very important factor to pursue rhythm control, several studies investigated on the specific impact of catheter ablation on quality of life. Catheter ablation shows a beneficial effect on quality of life in paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation independent of the timepoint and strategy of catheter ablation.

Indexed as

atrial fibrillationcatheter ablationpulmonary vein isolationquality of life

Identifiers

PMID35956155
PMCPMC9369868

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