Tag: Holter monitoring

24-hour Holter monitoring of a 59 year-old man with DDDR pacemaker (programmed mode: DDD) implanted for sick sinus syndrome with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation was performed one month after implantation, due to palpitations...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an increasingly widespread, costly and deadly disease, frequently named as epidemics of the 21 century. Despite advancement in modern treatment, mortality rate in CHF patients remains high. Therefore, risk stratification in patients with CHF remains one of the major challenges of contemporary cardiology...

Present day 24-h Holter monitors have been shown to miss many arrhythmias that may occur infrequently or under specific circumstances. The advancement in electronic and adhesive technologies have enabled the development of first generation wearable long-term 14-day patch ECG monitors that attach directly to the skin and require no electrodes and wires to operate. 

A high rate of unexplained syncope in various clinical settings, involving enormous resources for diagnosis and therapy, justifies the constant search for effective evaluation strategies. In most patients with syncope, electrocardiography (ECG) findings established as diagnostic [1] do not recur during the 24-h ECG monitoring period. Thus, the true yield of the standard Holter ECG assessment in an unselected population is as low as 1–2%...