ArticleJACC. Case reports2025
Successful Pulsed-Field Ablation of Superior Vena Cava Fibrillation Using a Circular Multielectrode Array Catheter.
Article in JACC. Case reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- 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 · 2026Guideline
- Pulsed-Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return With Right Atrial Drainage of Both Right Pulmonary Veins.Journal of arrhythmia · 2026Article
- Diagnosis and treatment of reentrant atrial tachycardia at the superior vena cava-right atrium junction using a dual-energy lattice-tip catheter.HeartRhythm case reports · 2026Article
- Transient sinus arrest caused by coronary spasm of the sinus node artery after pulsed field ablation for superior vena cava isolation: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2026Article
- From trial to practice: early multicenter real-world experience with the circular pulsed field ablation catheter.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2026Article
- Intra-SVC re-entrant atrial tachycardia successfully treated with a circular multi-electrode array pulsed-field ablation catheter-case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2026Article
- Feasibility of the "half-ring" technique of the circular array pulsed field ablation catheter to treat non-pulmonary vein foci in the vicinity of the conduction system.HeartRhythm case reports · 2026Article
- How to isolate the superior vena cava using balloon-in-basket pulsed field ablation system: Standardized workflow and initial results.Heart rhythm O2 · 2026Article
- Electrophysiological evaluation of incidental superior vena cava isolation following pulsed field ablation: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionSome reports have described superior vena cava isolation (SVCI) by the pentaspline pulsed-field ablation (PFA) catheter. However, this report presents a case series of superior vena cava (SVC) fibrillation successfully treated using a circular multielectrode array PFA catheter.
methodsWe performed SVCI using a PulseSelect PFA catheter (Medtronic) in 11 cases. SVCI was performed when the earliest activation during ectopy was inside the SVC. In the second session, SVCI was routinely performed if the myocardial sleeves were of sufficient length.
resultsThe mean number of PFA deliveries was 7.8 ± 2.1 applications. Short-term success of SVC isolation was achieved in all patients. Importantly, no cases of sinus node dysfunction or persistent phrenic nerve palsy were observed in this study.
conclusionsA circular multielectrode array PFA catheter is useful and safe for treating non-pulmonary vein foci triggered by the SVC.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
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.