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ReviewHeart international2025

Complications with Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing: The Flip Side of the Coin.

Samuel Stempfel, Heli Tolppanen, Valérian Valiton, Haran Burri

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Review in Heart international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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. Article
  2. Characteristics of paced waveforms and current of injury prior to septal perforation during left bundle branch area pacing.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 · 2026
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  3. Distinct intracardiac electrogram waveforms with perforation during left bundle branch area pacing implantation.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 · 2026
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  4. Controversy: in heart failure patients with a reduced ejection fraction and left bundle branch block, conduction system pacing can be a valid alternative to biventricular pacing-pro and contra.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

4 authors.

Samuel StempfelCardiac Pacing Unit, Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Heli TolppanenCardiac Pacing Unit, Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Valérian ValitonCardiac Pacing Unit, Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Haran BurriCardiac Pacing Unit, Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Left bundle branch area pacing has been a breakthrough in pacing therapy and is being increasingly adopted. It delivers a more physiological form of pacing compared with right ventricular and biventricular pacing and also avoids the risk of perforation of the ventricular free wall. However, the therapy comes at the price of new complications related to the transseptal route for placing the lead. This article provides an update on these complications and discusses how to avoid and manage these adverse events.

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Cardiac pacingcomplicationsconduction system pacingleft bundle branch area pacingmanagementperforation

Identifiers

PMID40708764
PMCPMC12285660

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