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Francis E. Marchlinski

Francis E. Marchlinski

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Medicine

D-Index
138
Citations
85670
World Ranking
1807
National Ranking
1032

Overview

Francis E. Marchlinski is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and specializes in medicine, with a focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their research encompasses a significant number of publications, totaling 867, predominantly in the field of cardiology.

The main areas of study for Marchlinski include cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, anesthesiology and pain medicine, and molecular biology. More specifically, their work centers on cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, atrial fibrillation management and outcomes, cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, cardiovascular effects of exercise, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, and cardiac structural anomalies and repair.

Marchlinski has contributed to various frequent publication venues including:

  • Heart Rhythm
  • JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology
  • Circulation
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
  • Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, among whom are:

  • David J. Callans
  • Saman Nazarian
  • David S. Frankel
  • Pasquale Santangeli
  • Robert D. Schaller

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Marchlinski include:

  • Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: The Padua criteria, 2020, International Journal of Cardiology
  • Pulsed Field Ablation for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: PULSED AF Pivotal Trial, 2023, Circulation
  • COVID-19 and cardiac arrhythmias, 2020, Heart Rhythm
  • Effect of MRI-Guided Fibrosis Ablation vs Conventional Catheter Ablation on Atrial Arrhythmia Recurrence in Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation, 2022, JAMA
  • Inflammation and Immune Response in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy: State-of-the-Art Review, 2021, Circulation

Best Publications

  • 2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design

    Hugh Calkins;Karl Heinz Kuck;Riccardo Cappato;Josep Brugada

  • 2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: Recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design

    Hugh Calkins;Karl Heinz Kuck;Riccardo Cappato;Josep Brugada

  • 2017 HRS / EHRA / ECAS / APHRS / SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

    Hugh Calkins;Gerhard Hindricks;Riccardo Cappato;Young Hoon Kim

  • HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Recommendations for Personnel, Policy, Procedures and Follow-Up. A report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Developed in partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

    Hugh Calkins;Josep Brugada;Douglas L. Packer;Riccardo Cappato

  • HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: Recommendations for personnel, policy, procedures and follow-up. A report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

    Hugh Calkins;Josep Brugada;Douglas L. Packer;Ricardo Cappato

  • Prognostic importance of defibrillator shocks in patients with heart failure.

    Jeanne E. Poole;George W. Johnson;Anne S. Hellkamp;Jill Anderson

  • Comparison of antiarrhythmic drug therapy and radiofrequency catheter ablation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: A randomized controlled trial

    David J. Wilber;Carlo Pappone;Petr Neuzil;Angelo De Paola

  • Linear Ablation Lesions for Control of Unmappable Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients With Ischemic and Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy

    Francis E. Marchlinski;David J. Callans;Charles D. Gottlieb;Erica Zado

  • Association of Atrial Tissue Fibrosis Identified by Delayed Enhancement MRI and Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation The DECAAF Study

    Nassir F. Marrouche;David Wilber;Gerhard Hindricks;Pierre Jais

  • EHRA/HRS Expert Consensus on Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias: developed in a partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a Registered Branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS); in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA).

    Etienne M. Aliot;William G. Stevenson;Jesus Ma Almendral-Garrote;Frank Bogun

  • Irrigated Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation Guided by Electroanatomic Mapping for Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia After Myocardial Infarction The Multicenter Thermocool Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation Trial

    William G. Stevenson;David J. Wilber;Andrea Natale;Warren M. Jackman

  • 2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: executive summary

    Hugh Calkins;Gerhard Hindricks;Riccardo Cappato;Young Hoon Kim

  • Treatment of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia: An International Task Force Consensus Statement.

    Domenico Corrado;Thomas Wichter;Mark S. Link;Richard N.W. Hauer

  • Freedom from recurrent ventricular tachycardia after catheter ablation is associated with improved survival in patients with structural heart disease: An International VT Ablation Center Collaborative Group study

    Roderick Tung;Marmar Vaseghi;David S. Frankel;Pasquale Vergara

  • EHRA/HRS expert consensus on catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias

    Etienne M. Aliot;William G. Stevenson;Jesus Ma Almendral-Garrote;Frank Bogun

  • Paroxysmal AF catheter ablation with a contact force sensing catheter: results of the prospective, multicenter SMART-AF trial.

    Andrea Natale;Vivek Y. Reddy;George Monir;David J. Wilber

  • Method of using endocardial impedance for determining electrode-tissue contact

    Francis E. Marchlinski;David S. Schwartzman;Mark S. Mirotznik;Kenneth R. Foster

  • EHRA/HRS/APHRS expert consensus on ventricular arrhythmias

    Christian Torp Pedersen;G. Neal Kay;Jonathan Kalman;Martin Borggrefe

  • Right ventricular tachycardia: clinical and electrophysiologic characteristics.

    A E Buxton;H L Waxman;F E Marchlinski;M B Simson

  • Uninterrupted rivaroxaban vs. uninterrupted vitamin K antagonists for catheter ablation in non-valvular atrial fibrillation

    Riccardo Cappato;Francis E. Marchlinski;Stefan H. Hohnloser;Gerald V. Naccarelli

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Callans
David J. Callans University of Pennsylvania
Edward P. Gerstenfeld
Edward P. Gerstenfeld University of California, San Francisco
Mark E. Josephson
Mark E. Josephson Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Alfred E. Buxton
Alfred E. Buxton Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Andrea Natale
Andrea Natale Case Western Reserve University
Saman Nazarian
Saman Nazarian University of Pennsylvania
Luigi Di Biase
Luigi Di Biase Albert Einstein College of Medicine
William G. Stevenson
William G. Stevenson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hugh Calkins
Hugh Calkins Johns Hopkins University
Kalyanam Shivkumar
Kalyanam Shivkumar University of California, Los Angeles

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