HUNTINGTON — Dr. George Joseph, electrophysiologist at HIMG, is now performing office-based insertion of an implantable cardiac monitor. The loop recorder is a very small heart rhythm-monitoring ...
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 ...
Experts note that implantable loop recorders are valuable for detecting infrequent arrhythmias and guiding anticoagulation decisions post-cryptogenic stroke or atrial fibrillation ablation, but due to ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – What do you get if you combine an EKG heart monitor with a Wi-Fi transmitter and then shrink it down to the size of a memory stick? You get an EKG recorder that helps doctors ...
May 10, 2005 (New Orleans) – Implantable loop recorders successfully provided a diagnosis in almost half of patients with unexplained syncope or presyncope, New York researchers reported at the Heart ...
Patients who received an implantable heart rhythm monitor after suffering a heart attack did not have fewer subsequent cardiovascular events overall, but a subset of patients whose heart attack was ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . However, among patients with non-STEMI, those who received the implantable loop recorder (BioMonitor 2, ...
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 ...
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 ...