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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Clinical, Electrocardiographic and Echocardiographic Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence After Pulmonary Vein Isolation.

Aikaterini-Eleftheria Karanikola, Melpomeni Tzortzi, Athanasios Kordalis, Ioannis Doundoulakis, Christos-Konstantinos Antoniou, Ageliki Laina, Panagiotis Tsioufis, Nikos Argyriou, Athanasios Sakalidis, Konstantinos Pamporis and 2 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Aikaterini-Eleftheria KaranikolaFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9153-5697
Melpomeni TzortziFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Athanasios KordalisFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4093-4601
Ioannis DoundoulakisFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2184-3296
Christos-Konstantinos AntoniouFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4861-2404
Ageliki LainaFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9592-5895
Panagiotis TsioufisFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1100-7430
Nikos ArgyriouFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Athanasios SakalidisFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3332-803X
Konstantinos PamporisFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5411-6461
Konstantinos TsioufisFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7636-6725
Dimitrios TsiachrisFirst Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vas. Sofias 114, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4531-9712

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a supraventricular arrhythmia and the most common heart rhythm disorder in the adult population worldwide with an estimated prevalence of 2% to 4% of the population. Cases of AF have shown an increasing trend in recent decades, while its frequency is expected to rise even more. Given the significant impact on patients' quality of life, as well as its major complications, including thromboembolic events, effective rhythm control strategies other than antiarrhythmic medication have emerged, with catheter ablation (CA) being the cornerstone of these. In recent years, CA has been upgraded to a first-line treatment for selected patients. However, complications do exist and arrhythmia-free survival is not always guaranteed. The need to better identify patients more suitable for this specific therapeutic measure is crucial in improving outcomes and preventing arrhythmia recurrences. This review aims to present currently identified predictors of AF recurrence after catheter ablation based on clinical characteristics and electrocardiographic and echocardiographic parameters, in an era of increasing interventional rhythm control approaches for the management of atrial fibrillation.

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atrial fibrillationcatheter ablationclinicalelectrocardiogrampredictorsrecurrencetransthoracic echocardiogram

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PMID39941478
PMCPMC11818469

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