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. 2024 Jul 2;26(7):euae180.
doi: 10.1093/europace/euae180.

Incidence of acute pericarditis after pulsed-field ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation

Corinne Isenegger  1   2 , Rebecca Arnet  1   2 , Fabian Jordan  1   2 , Marc Salis  1   2 , Sven Knecht  1   2 , Philipp Krisai  1   2 , Gian Völlmin  1   2 , David Spreen  1   2 , Stefan Osswald  1   2 , Christian Sticherling  1   2 , Michael Kühne  1   2 , Patrick Badertscher  1   2
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Incidence of acute pericarditis after pulsed-field ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation

Corinne Isenegger et al. Europace. .

Abstract

Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Pericarditis; Pulmonary vein isolation; Pulsed-field ablation.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: P.B. has received research funding from the ‘University of Basel’, the ‘Stiftung für Herzschrittmacher und Elektrophysiologie’, the ‘Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel’, the ‘Swiss Heart Foundation’ and Johnson & Johnson and reports personal fees from BMS, Boston Scientific, and Abbott, all outside the submitted work. P.K. reports speaker fees from BMS/Pfizer and grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Swiss Heart Foundation, Foundation for Cardiovascular Research Basel, and Machaon Foundation. S.K. has received funding of the ‘Stiftung für Herzschrittmacher und Elektrophysiologie’. C.S. is a member of Medtronic Advisory Board Europe and Boston Scientitic Advisory Board Europe and received educational grants from Biosense Webster and Biotronik and a research grant from the European Union’s FP7 program and Biosense Webster and lecture and consulting fees from Abbott, Medtronic, Biosense Webster, Boston Scientific, MicroPort, and Biotronik, all outside the submitted work. M.K. reports grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant numbers 33CS30_148474, 33CS30_177520, 32473B_176178, and 32003B_197524), the Swiss Heart Foundation, the Foundation for Cardiovascular Research Basel, and the University of Basel, grants from Bayer, grants from Pfizer, grants from Boston Scientific, grants from BMS, grants from Biotronik, and grants and personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo, all outside the submitted work. Others have nothing to declare.

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