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ArticleEuropace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology2023

Is right ventricular outflow tract epicardial substrate ablation the standard of care in high-risk Brugada syndrome?

Elijah R Behr, Giulio Conte, Arthur Wilde

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Article in 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, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Epicardial ablation in high-risk Brugada syndrome to prevent ventricular fibrillation: results from a randomized clinical 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 · 2025
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  2. Accumulating evidence for epicardial ablation in malignant forms of Brugada syndrome: summary of two randomized clinical trials.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 · 2025
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  3. Genetic background determines the severity of age-dependent cardiac structural abnormalities and arrhythmia susceptibility in Scn5a-1798insD mice.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
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Elijah R BehrCardiovascular and Genomics Research Institute, St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8731-2853
Giulio ConteElectrophysiology Unit, Department of Cardiology, Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, via Tesserete 48, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2248-3456
Arthur WildeDepartment of Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0528-0852
Epatocentro Ticino · CHERN GUARD-Heart · NLSt George's, University of London · GB

Funding

CVON Predict-2Robert Lancaster Memorial FundUKRI
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Brugada SyndromeCatheter AblationDefibrillators, ImplantableArrhythmias, CardiacHeart VentriclesHumansStandard of Care

Identifiers

PMID38252938
PMCPMC10824472
OpenAlexW4391096798

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Registered trials

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