Brás, Pedro Garcia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9970-7828
Cunha, Pedro Silva
Timóteo, Ana Teresa
Portugal, Guilherme
Galrinho, Ana
Laranjo, Sérgio
Cruz, Madalena Coutinho
Valente, Bruno
Rio, Pedro
Delgado, Ana Sofia
Paulo, Margarida
Brás, Manuel
Ferreira, Rui Cruz
Oliveira, Mário Martins
Branco, Luísa Moura
Article History
Received: 12 April 2023
Accepted: 20 June 2023
First Online: 7 July 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study. Ethical approval was waived by the local Ethics Committee (Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central) in view of the retrospective nature of the study (conducted on already available digital data, obtained for clinical purposes) and all the procedures being performed were part of the routine care.
: The study was conducted under the Declaration of Helsinki and each participant provided informed consent before undergoing echocardiography and AF ablation (consent to participate and consent to publish).
: The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work center on the publication of patient data. The dataset generated during this study is currently not publicly shared as it contains detailed individual patient data, which would compromise patient privacy. The generated dataset is currently accessible to the Santa Marta Hospital, Centro Universitário Hospitalar de Lisboa Central’s Electrophysiology Team.
: The authors declare that no patient data appear in this article.
: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose, including no recent, present or anticipated employment by any organization that may gain or lose financially through publication of this manuscript.