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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">97</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">1310-7488</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2683-1015</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Bulgarian Society of Cardiology</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/bgcardio.29.e112624</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">112624</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>Arrhythmias (аритмии)</subject>
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        <article-title>Cardioneuroablation for recurrent vasovagal syncope and functional sinus bradycardia: a case series</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Shalganov</surname>
            <given-names>T.</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">t_shalganov@yahoo.com</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2268-0759</uri>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Stoyanov</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1226-6119</uri>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Bayraktarova</surname>
            <given-names>I.</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8386-9566</uri>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Bardarska</surname>
            <given-names>L.</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">National Heart Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>National Heart Hospital</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: T. Shalganov (<email xlink:type="simple">t_shalganov@yahoo.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Krasimir Dzhinsov</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>61</fpage>
      <lpage>72</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/4FB175C2-7C88-5D4E-BC66-768707B5BA21">4FB175C2-7C88-5D4E-BC66-768707B5BA21</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>04</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>T. Shalganov, M. Stoyanov, I. Bayraktarova, L. Bardarska</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Patients with recurrent vasovagal syncope with cardioinhibitory or mixed mechanism, or with symptomatic functional sinus bradycardia or AV block can be treated with cardioneuroablation. Material and methods: A case series of 5 patients is presented – four with recurrent syncope and/or symptomatic sinus bradycardia, and one with paroxysmal atrial ﬁ brillation and recurrent syncope. After a conﬁ rmation of the syncope mechanism with tilt table test, and after positive atropine test, radiofrequency catheter cardioneuroablation was performed (this was adjunctive procedure for the patient with atrial ﬁ brillation who received pulmonary vein isolation). During short-term follow-up none of the patients had syncopal recurrence. Conclusion: Catheter neuromodulation provided very good short-term results and lack of serious complications in this ﬁ rst case series in Bulgaria.</p>
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