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Ghazala Irfan
Researcher at Université libre de Bruxelles
Publications - 26
Citations - 1220
Ghazala Irfan is an academic researcher from Université libre de Bruxelles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Atrial fibrillation & Brugada syndrome. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 22 publications receiving 1074 citations. Previous affiliations of Ghazala Irfan include Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in Brugada syndrome: a 20-year single-center experience.
Giulio Conte,Juan Sieira,Giuseppe Ciconte,Carlo de Asmundis,Gian-Battista Chierchia,Giannis Baltogiannis,Giacomo Di Giovanni,Mark La Meir,Francis Wellens,Jens Czapla,Kristel Wauters,Moises Levinstein,Yukio Saitoh,Ghazala Irfan,Justo Juliá,Gudrun Pappaert,Pedro Brugada +16 more
TL;DR: ICD therapy was an effective strategy in Brugada syndrome, treating potentially lethal arrhythmias in 17% of patients during long-term follow-up, and risk stratification by electrophysiologic study may identify asymptomatic patients at risk for arrhythmic events and could be helpful in investigating syncope not related to VAs.
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Single 3-minute freeze for second-generation cryoballoon ablation: One-year follow-up after pulmonary vein isolation
Giuseppe Ciconte,Carlo de Asmundis,Juan Sieira,Giulio Conte,Giacomo Di Giovanni,Giacomo Mugnai,Yukio Saitoh,Giannis Baltogiannis,Ghazala Irfan,Hugo Enrique Coutino-Moreno,Burak Hünük,Vedran Velagic,Pedro Brugada,Gian-Battista Chierchia +13 more
TL;DR: A single 3-minute freeze is highly effective, determining an atrial tachyarrhythmia freedom of 80.4% at 1-year follow-up, and Routine use of an "insurance freeze" may not be needed.
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Circumferential pulmonary vein isolation as index procedure for persistent atrial fibrillation: a comparison between radiofrequency catheter ablation and second-generation cryoballoon ablation
Giuseppe Ciconte,Giannis Baltogiannis,Carlo de Asmundis,Juan Sieira,Giulio Conte,Giacomo Di Giovanni,Yukio Saitoh,Ghazala Irfan,Giacomo Mugnai,Burak Hünük,Gian-Battista Chierchia,Pedro Brugada +11 more
TL;DR: Atrial tachyarrhythmias occurrence during BP and longer time of PersAF seem to be significant predictors of arrhythmia recurrences after the index procedure, which is associated with shorter procedure time and radiation exposure as compared with RFCA.
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Prognostic value of programmed electrical stimulation in Brugada syndrome: 20 years experience.
Juan Sieira,Giulio Conte,Giuseppe Ciconte,Carlo de Asmundis,Gian-Battista Chierchia,Giannis Baltogiannis,Giacomo Di Giovanni,Yukio Saitoh,Ghazala Irfan,Ruben Casado-Arroyo,Justo Juliá,Mark La Meir,Francis Wellens,Kristel Wauters,Sophie Van Malderen,Gudrun Pappaert,Pedro Brugada +16 more
TL;DR: Programmed ventricular stimulation of the heart is a good predictor of outcome in individuals with Brugada syndrome and might be of special value to guide further management when performed in asymptomatic individuals.
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Pulmonary vein isolation as index procedure for persistent atrial fibrillation: One-year clinical outcome after ablation using the second-generation cryoballoon
Giuseppe Ciconte,Luca Ottaviano,Carlo de Asmundis,Giannis Baltogiannis,Giulio Conte,Juan Sieira,Giacomo Di Giovanni,Yukio Saitoh,Ghazala Irfan,Giacomo Mugnai,Cesare Storti,Annibale Sandro Montenero,Gian-Battista Chierchia,Pedro Brugada +13 more
TL;DR: At 1-year follow-up, freedom from ATas following PersAF ablation with the novel CB-Adv is 60%.