Medscape

Implantable Loop Recorders Show Cost Benefit Over Conventional Monitoring for Recurrent Unexplained Syncope in Select Patients

August 14, 2003 — When evaluating select patients with recurrent unexplained syncope, a diagnostic strategy of prolonged primary monitoring using an implantable loop recorder is more cost effective ...
Medscape

Implantable Loop Recorder Effective in Determining Symptom-Rhythm Correlation in Young Patients With Syncope; Device Could Increase Diagnostic Accuracy

October 15, 2003 — The use of an implantable loop recorder (ILR) is effective to establish symptom-rhythm correlation during syncope, near-syncope, palpitations, and acute life-threatening events ...
TCTMD

Trials Suggest Need for Prolonged AF Monitoring in More Stroke Patients

Taking a longer look for subclinical atrial fibrillation (AF) after a stroke will turn up more cases compared with shorter-term monitoring—that’s not surprising. But results from two trials published ...
Healio

Supraventricular arrhythmias more common than thought after percutaneous PFO closure

Supraventricular arrhythmias may be underestimated in patients who have received percutaneous patent foramen ovale closure for stroke prevention, researchers reported at the European Society of ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Zio XT for detecting cardiac arrhythmias

3.1 The clinical evidence comprises 17 published studies, which include 169,063 people referred to ambulatory monitoring, and 13 abstracts: 3.2 Three of the 4 comparative studies compared 14‑day Zio ...