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SynthesisESC heart failure2024

Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation improves outcomes in heart failure: An updated meta-analysis.

Shingo Kato, Mai Azuma, Sho Kodama, Nobuyuki Horita, Daisuke Utsunomiya

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Synthesis in ESC heart failure, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Shingo KatoDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7545-0669
Mai AzumaDepartment of Cardiology, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Sho KodamaDepartment of Cardiology, Chigasaki Municipal Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Nobuyuki HoritaChemotherapy Center, Yokohama City University Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Daisuke UtsunomiyaDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Atrial FibrillationCatheter AblationHeart FailureHumansTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID38923812
PMCPMC11424343

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