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ReviewBiomedicines2025

Cryoballoon Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Obese Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Compared to Non-Obese Counterparts: A Meta-Analysis.

Dimitrios A Vrachatis, Konstantinos A Papathanasiou, Dimitrios Kazantzis, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Maria Kousta, Sotiria G Giotaki, Gerasimos Deftereos, Vaia Lambadiari, George Giannopoulos, Efthimia K Basdra and 3 more

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Review in Biomedicines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Dimitrios A VrachatisEugenideio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2385-5365
Konstantinos A PapathanasiouSecond Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0123-2615
Dimitrios KazantzisNIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre and Clinical Research Facility, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London EC1V 2PD, UK.
Ioannis AnagnostopoulosEugenideio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3062-360X
Maria KoustaEugenideio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Sotiria G GiotakiEugenideio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Gerasimos DeftereosEugenideio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Vaia LambadiariSecond Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
George GiannopoulosThird Department of Cardiology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Efthimia K BasdraEugenideio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Theodore G PapaioannouDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Gerasimos SiasosThird Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Sotiria Chest Disease Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Spyridon DeftereosEugenideio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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arrhythmia recurrenceatrial fibrillationbody mass indexcatheter ablationobesityradiation exposure

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PMID40002711
PMCPMC11852532

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