Observational studyAnnals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc2021
Diagnostic value of implantable loop recorders in patients with unexplained syncope or palpitations.
Observational study in Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- From sensation to action: expectation, appraisal, and decision-making in patient-triggered cardiac monitoring.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Overshadowing in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Case of Recurrent Syncope.Cureus · 2026Article
- Expanding the Role of Implantable Loop Recorders: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Yields Across Seven Clinical Indications in 388 Real-World Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Clinical Value of Implantable Loop Recorders in Syncope of Unclear Aetiology: A Single-Centre Experience.Cureus · 2025Article
- Long-Term Complications Related to Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- The Diagnostic Yield of Implantable Loop Recorders Stratified by Indication: A "Real-World" Single-Center Experience.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Breast MRI in patients with implantable loop recorder: initial experience.European radiology · 2024Article
- Diagnostic value of implantable loop recorders in patients with unexplained syncope or palpitations.Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc · 2021Observational
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Abstract
backgroundThe implantable loop recorder (ILR) is a small cardiac rhythm-monitoring device. Our aim was to determine ILR diagnostic value in patients with unexplained syncope, presyncope, or palpitations suggesting cardiac arrhythmias.
methodsThis has been a retrospective, observational, single-center study. We included 181 patients in whom ILR was implanted at the Clinical Center of Serbia between January 2006 and July 2019. An event was marked as diagnostic if it led to a diagnosis and ILR was considered diagnostic if it verified or excluded an arrhythmia as the cause of syncope or palpitations.
resultsThe mean age was 51.8 ± 17.8 years and 94 (51.9%) were male. The mean follow-up period was 20.2 ± 15.8 months. ILR was diagnostic in 98 patients (54.1%). There was no significant difference in diagnostic value of ILR in regard to the baseline patients' characteristics. The mean time to occurrence of the diagnostic event was 11.1 ± 9.6 months. The time to occurrence of a diagnostic event did not differ significantly between patients who underwent basic as compared to extended diagnostics before ILR implantation.
conclusionsILR was able to achieve an etiological diagnosis in 54.1% of patients with unexplained syncope, presyncope, or palpitations suggesting cardiac arrhythmias. In a subgroup of patients with recurrent palpitations, ILR was significantly less diagnostic than in patients with syncope or presyncope. ILR should be implanted beforehand in syncope evaluation process.
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