Duration of Implantable Cardiac Monitoring and Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in Ischemic Stroke Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background and Purpose Current guidelines do not provide firm directions on atrial fibrillation (AF) screening after ischemic stroke (IS). We sought to investigate the association of implantable cardiac monitoring (ICM) duration with the yield of AF detection in IS patients. Methods We included stud...

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Main Authors: Georgios Tsivgoulis, Aristeidis H. Katsanos, Martin Köhrmann, Valeria Caso, Fabienne Perren, Lina Palaiodimou, Spyridon Deftereos, Sotirios Giannopoulos, John Ellul, Christos Krogias, Dimitris Mavridis, Sokratis Triantafyllou, Anne W. Alexandrov, Peter D. Schellinger, Andrei V. Alexandrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Stroke Society 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of Stroke
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Online Access:http://www.j-stroke.org/upload/pdf/jos-2019-01067.pdf