Bradycardia is a lot more common than generally believed, but is often asymptomatic and not clinically relevant, and may lead to needless pacemaker therapy, suggests a post-hoc analysis of a major ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Continuous implantable loop recorder monitoring resulted in a threefold increase in atrial fibrillation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Implantable loop recorder screening for atrial fibrillation did not significantly reduce the risk for stroke ...

Barcelona, Spain, 1 September 2009: The REVISE Study (Reveal in the Investigation of Syncope and Epilepsy) found that 1 in 8 adult patients in the United Kingdom, previously thought to be suffering ...

Using an implantable loop recorder (ILR) to screen older individuals for atrial fibrillation (AF) may be more beneficial when NT-proBNP levels are high, according to a post hoc analysis of the LOOP ...

Among older people at high risk for stroke, the benefits of screening for atrial fibrillation (AF)—and then treating it when it’s detected—may be dependent on what types of episodes are being ...

Atrial fibrillation was diagnosed in 477 of 1,501 (31.8%) participants in the monitoring group and 550 of 4,503 (12.2%) participants in the control group (HR 3.17, 95% CI 2.81-3.59, P<0.001), reported ...

That's a potential message from a randomized trial that tested an AF screening strategy relying on an implantable loop recorder (ILR) in older adults without AF but with other stroke risk factors who ...

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July 14--A device a fraction of an inch long is providing George Saenz with a peace of mind he has never had before. Three weeks ago, the 67-year-old independent insurance agent had the Medtronic ...