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Patients were categorised into two groups; zero-fluoroscopy (ZF) group and conventional fluoroscopy (CF) group. The ZF group was further divided into two subgroups (adults and paediatric). Patient characteristics, procedural information, and follow-up data were compared.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The ZF group had a higher proportion of paediatric patients (42.2% vs 0.0%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001), resulting in a younger age (30.9\u2009\u00b1\u200920.3\u00a0years vs 52.7\u2009\u00b1\u200916.5\u00a0years; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001) and lower BMI (22.8\u2009\u00b1\u20095.7\u00a0kg\/m<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> vs 27.0\u2009\u00b1\u20095.4\u00a0kg\/m<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Procedure time was shorter in the ZF group (94.2\u2009\u00b1\u200950.4\u00a0min vs 104.0\u2009\u00b1\u200954.0\u00a0min; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.002). There were no major complications and the rate of minor complications did not differ between groups (0.0% vs 0.4%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.304). Acute procedural success as well as the long-term success rate when only the index procedure was considered did not differ between groups (92.5% vs 95.4%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.155; 87.1% vs 89.2%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.422). When repeated procedures were included, the long-term success rate was higher in the ZF group (98.3% vs 93.5%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.004). The difference can be partially explained by the operators' preferences.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The safety and efficacy of ZF procedures in adult and paediatric populations are comparable to that of CF procedures.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12872-022-02544-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,13]],"date-time":"2022-03-13T21:02:11Z","timestamp":1647205331000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Conventional fluoroscopy-guided versus zero-fluoroscopy catheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardias"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6765-1527","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tine","family":"Proli\u010d Kalin\u0161ek","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jernej","family":"\u0160orli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6379-9986","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matev\u017e","family":"Jan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matja\u017e","family":"\u0160inkovec","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5482-3809","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bor","family":"Antoli\u010d","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Luka","family":"Klemen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"\u017di\u017eek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrej","family":"Pernat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,13]]},"reference":[{"issue":"41","key":"2544_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"655","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehz467","volume":"1","author":"J Brugada","year":"2020","unstructured":"Brugada J, Katritsis DG, Arbelo E, Arribas F, Bax JJ, Blomstrom-Lundqvist C, et al. 2019 ESC guidelines for the management of patients with supraventricular tachycardia. 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The fluoroless ablation protocol was approved by the National Medical Ethics Committee (Komisija za medicinsko etiko Republike Slovenije) (0120-010\/2016-4). Consent to participate was not necessary for the approval of the National Medical Ethics Committee due to retrospective nature of the study and de-identified patient data used in the study.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics approval and consent to participate"}},{"value":"Not applicable.","order":3,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Consent for publication"}},{"value":"The authors declare that they have no competing interests.","order":4,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Competing interests"}}],"article-number":"98"}}