Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28007095›Full record

ArticleHeart rhythm2017

Ganglionated plexus ablation for atrial fibrillation: Just because we can, does that mean we should?

Una Buckley, Pradeep S Rajendran, Kalyanam Shivkumar

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Article in Heart rhythm, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
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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.

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

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.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Una BuckleyUCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Center of Excellence, Los Angeles, California.
Pradeep S RajendranUCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Center of Excellence, Los Angeles, California,; Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Program, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
Kalyanam ShivkumarUCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Neurocardiology Research Center of Excellence, Los Angeles, California,; Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Program, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: kshivkumar@mednet.ucla.edu.

Funding

Training in Molecular, Cellular &Integrative PhysiologyT32GM065823 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI TIDBALL, JAMES G · 2003 to 2017
$2.1M
Myocardial infarction alters information processing within the intrinsic cardiac nervous systemF31HL127974 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI RAJENDRAN, PRADEEP SUNDARAM · 2015 to 2017
$72k
NHLBI NIH HHS F31 HL127974NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM065823
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Atrial FibrillationCatheter AblationGanglia, AutonomicHumans

Identifiers

PMID28007095
PMCPMC5378161

What Socratic holds

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.