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ArticleEuropace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology2025

Pulsed-field ablation vs. thermal ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Patrick Badertscher, Jeanne Du Fay de Lavallaz, Tobias Reichlin, Laurent Roten, Thomas Kueffer, Fabian Jordan, Sven Knecht, Felix Mahfoud, Christian Sticherling, Michael Kühne

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Article in 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. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

  1. Pulsed field ablation for the interventional treatment of atrial fibrillation: a scientific statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association of the European Society of Cardiology, the Heart Rhythm Society, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society, and the Canadian Heart Rhythm Society.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 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Patrick BadertscherUniversity Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, Basel 4031, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9751-0557
Jeanne Du Fay de LavallazUniversity Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, Basel 4031, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0806-1786
Tobias ReichlinInselspital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7197-8415
Laurent RotenInselspital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0827-1329
Thomas KuefferInselspital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3553-4945
Fabian JordanUniversity Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, Basel 4031, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0004-4831-7274
Sven KnechtUniversity Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, Basel 4031, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7122-021X
Felix MahfoudUniversity Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, Basel 4031, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4425-549X
Christian SticherlingUniversity Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, Basel 4031, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8428-7050
Michael KühneUniversity Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, Basel 4031, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2937-3711

Funding

Swiss Heart Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Atrial fibrillationPulmonary vein isolationPulsed-field ablationThermal ablation

Identifiers

PMID40808386
PMCPMC12395552

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