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Robert Hatala

Researcher at Slovak Medical University

Publications -  47
Citations -  10181

Robert Hatala is an academic researcher from Slovak Medical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Atrial fibrillation & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 34 publications receiving 8144 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Hatala include Goethe University Frankfurt.

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Prophylactic Use of an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator After Acute Myocardial Infarction

TL;DR: Prophylactic ICD therapy does not reduce overall mortality in high-risk patients who have recently had a myocardial infarction, and is associated with a reduction in the rate of death due to arrhythmia, that was offset by an increase in the rates of death from nonarrhythmic causes.
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Suppression of paroxysmal atrial tachyarrhythmias — results of the SOPAT trial

TL;DR: The Suppression of Paroxysmal Atrial Tachyarrhythmias (SOPAT) trial was designed to answer the following questions: (1) What is the average rate of spontaneous events of symptomatic PAF with and without anti-arrhythmic medication? (2) what is the prevalence of severe side effects? and (3) is the fixed combination of Quinidine+Verapamil inferior to the efficacy of sotalol or not?.