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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 compared to thermal ablation techniques in atrial fibrillation: a German-wide in-hospital safety analysis.

Alexander Maier, Christian Weber, Constantin von Zur Mühlen, Johannes Steinfurt, Jonathan Rilinger, Vera Oettinger, Lukas A Heger, Carolin Ehlert, Dawid L Staudacher, Simon Reiss and 4 more

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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 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 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.

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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

3 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
    Guideline
  2. [Risk of stroke during left atrial catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation].Herzschrittmachertherapie & Elektrophysiologie · 2026
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Alexander MaierDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0200-7495
Christian WeberDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7676-1223
Constantin von Zur MühlenDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2767-8009
Johannes SteinfurtDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9647-6139
Jonathan RilingerDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9333-3629
Vera OettingerDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4460-2102
Lukas A HegerDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9419-5675
Carolin EhlertDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7310-878X
Dawid L StaudacherDepartment of Medicine III (Interdisciplinary Medical Intensive Care), University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9423-9682
Simon ReissDivision of Medical Physics, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2449-1679
Dirk WestermannDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7542-1956
Thomas ArentzDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0009-0007-8115-0703
Klaus KaierCenter for Big Data Analysis in Cardiology (CeBAC), Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0837-6945
Markus JäckelDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, Freiburg 79106  Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8638-5228

Funding

Berta-Ottenstein-Programme for Advanced Clinician ScientistsFaculty of MedicineGerman Foundation of Heart ResearchGerman Heart FoundationUniversity of Freiburg
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Atrial fibrillationCardiac tamponadeCatheter ablationComplicationsCryoballoonOutcomePulsed field ablationRadiofrequency

Identifiers

PMID40879124
PMCPMC12395426

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