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Heart Rhythm. 2026 Jan 5:S1547-5271(26)00006-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.12.040.
Online ahead of print.
1 Department of Clinical Electrophysiology & Cardiac Pacing, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
2 Department of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: alessio.gasperetti93@gmail.com.
3 Department of Clinical Electrophysiology & Cardiac Pacing, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Charles University, Second Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
4 Department of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
5 Department of Rhythmology, University Heart Center Lübeck, Lubeck, Germany.
6 De Gasperis Cardio Center, Electrophysiology Unit, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
7 Department of Internal Clinical, Anesthesiological and Cardiovascular Sciences, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
8 Cardiology and Arrhythmology Clinic, University Hospital "Ospedali Riuniti," Ancona, Italy.
9 Institut de Cardiologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière and Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
10 Cardiology Clinic, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
11 Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Pacing, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy.
12 Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology Unit, San Raffaele Hospital, IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
13 Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen Internal Medicine 2 with Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care Medicine, Linz, Austria.
14 Department of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine, St. George Klinik Asklepios, Hamburg, Germany.
15 Cardiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy.
16 Cardiology Unit, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Manheim, Germany.
17 Cardiology Unit, IRCCS, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Sant'Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
18 Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiology at Montefiore-Einstein Center, Bronx, New York, New York.
19 Department of Clinical Electrophysiology & Cardiac Pacing, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
20 Cardiology Unit, ASST Sacco-Fatebenefratelli, Milan, Italy.