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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Low-Voltage Area Ablation in Addition to Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Stefano Valcher, Alessandro Villaschi, Giulio Falasconi, Mauro Chiarito, Filippo Giunti, Laura Novelli, Lucio Addeo, Antonio Taormina, Cristina Panico, Pietro Francia and 14 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

  1. Prevalence and multiple predictors of left atrial low voltage in paroxysmal and non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients undergoing ablation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.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
    Pooled it
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  3. Atypical atrial flutter ablation: clinical practice on patient selection, mapping, ablation strategies, and procedural endpoints-results from a European Heart Rhythm Association survey.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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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Stefano ValcherDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8355-9894
Alessandro VillaschiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7981-7894
Giulio FalasconiIRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7128-9911
Mauro ChiaritoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Filippo GiuntiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Laura NovelliDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1547-3252
Lucio AddeoOlv Hospital, 9300 Aalst, Belgium.ORCID 0009-0004-4616-9300
Antonio TaorminaIRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.
Cristina PanicoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Pietro FranciaTeknon Medical Center, 08022 Barcelona, Spain.
Andrea SagliettoTeknon Medical Center, 08022 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9475-1507
Guido Del MonacoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Alessia Chiara LatiniDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Sebastiano CarliDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Stefano FrittellaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Alessandro Giaj LevraDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Giulia AntonelliDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Alberto PredaElectrophysiology Unit, De Gasperis Cardio Center, ASST Great Metropolitan Niguarda, 20162 Milan, Italy.
Fabrizio GuarraciniElectrophysiology Unit, De Gasperis Cardio Center, ASST Great Metropolitan Niguarda, 20162 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3473-1058
Patrizio MazzoneElectrophysiology Unit, De Gasperis Cardio Center, ASST Great Metropolitan Niguarda, 20162 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5775-1874
Antonio BerruezoTeknon Medical Center, 08022 Barcelona, Spain.
Massimo TrittoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Gianluigi CondorelliDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Diego PenelaIRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

atrial fibrillationcatheter ablationlow-voltage areametanalysisparoxysmal atrial fibrillationpersistent atrial fibrillation

Identifiers

PMID39124807
PMCPMC11313645

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